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ovist


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ovist  \O"vist\,  n.  (Zo["o]l.) 
  A  believer  in  ovism. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ovist  \O"vist\,  n.  (Biol.) 
  Same  as  {Ovulist}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ovulist  \O"vu*list\,  n.  (Biol.) 
  A  believer  in  the  theory  (called  encasement  theory),  current 
  during  the  last  century,  that  the  egg  was  the  real  animal 
  germ,  and  that  at  the  time  of  fecundation  the  spermatozoa 
  simply  gave  the  impetus  which  caused  the  unfolding  of  the 
  egg,  in  which  all  generations  were  inclosed  one  within  the 
  other  Also  called  {ovist}.