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noun Abiogenesis n. (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."
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