emboitement Meaning, Definition & Usage

Em`boîte"ment` noun (Also<

• Emboitement
• Emboîtement

)

Etymology

F., fr. emboîter to fit in, insert; en in + boîte box.

Definitions

1. (Biol.) The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preëxisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another. Buffon.