| 释义 |
panˈspermatism
[f. as prec. + -ism.]
= panspermia. Hence panˈspermatist, one who holds the doctrine of panspermatism.
1874J. Fiske Cosmic Philos. I. ii. viii. 420 The hypothesis, devised by Spallanzani, that the atmosphere is full of invisible germs which can penetrate through the smallest crevices. This hypothesis is currently known as ‘panspermatism’, or the ‘theory of omnipresent germs’, or..the ‘germ-theory’. 1874Contemp. Rev. XXIV. 518 It rested more especially with the Panspermatists, who chose still to be opponents of ‘spontaneous generation’, to show this belief..was erroneous. 1878Tyndall Gragm. Sc. II. xiii. |
