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Vermiculist

A believer that generation is caused by vermicules, or tiny worms. Latin vermiculus, diminutive of vermis, vermin-, worm. In the 18th century the Italian scientist Lazzaro Spallanzani spoke of the three principal systems respecting the generation of animals, the system of the ovarists, that of the vermiculists, and that founded upon the two liquors.
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