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panspermia

[ pan-spur-mee-uh ]

noun

, Biology.
  1. the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores that develop in the right environment.


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Other Words From

  • pan·spermic adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of panspermia1

1835–45; < New Latin < Greek panspermía mixture of all seeds. See pan-, -sperm, -ia
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Example Sentences

Over the past four decades, all the predictions of cometary panspermia have been verified.

Indeed, the old idea of panspermia leads to the wholesale exchange of biology between the stars.

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