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Definition: Ovism
Ovism
\O"vism\, n. [Ovum + -ism.] (Zo["o]l.)
The old theory that the egg contains the whole embryo of the
future organism and the germs of all subsequent offsprings
and is merely awakened to activity by the spermatozo["o]n; --
opposed to
spermism or
animalculism.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]