abiogenesis : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: abiogenesis	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for abiogenesis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
abiogenesis n a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter Synonym(s): abiogenesis, autogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Abiogenesis \Ab`iogen"e*sis\, n. [Gr. 'a priv. + [?] life + [?], origin, birth.] (Biol.) 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.