abiogenesis, autogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation
(noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter
Source: WordNet® 3.1
abiogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural abiogeneses)
(evolutionary theory) The origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents. [from 1870]
• abiogeny
• biopoiesis
• biogenesis
• transformism
Source: Wiktionary
Ab`i*o*gen"e*sis, n. Etym: [Gr. (Biol.)
Definition: The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 July 2024
(verb) cause someone or something to move by driving; “She drove me to school every day”; “We drove the car to the garage”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
