LAMARCKISM

Meaning of LAMARCKISM in English

/leuh mahr"kiz euhm/ , n.

the Lamarckian theory that characteristics acquired by habit, use, or disuse may be passed on to future generations through inheritance.

[ 1880-85; LAMARCK + -ISM ]

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LAMARCKISM — noun Etymology: J.-B. de Monet de Lamarck Date: 1884 a theory of organic evolution asserting that environmental changes cause structural …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
LAMARCKISM — -ärˌkizəm noun ( -s ) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: J. B. de Monet Lamarck, its formulator + English -ism : …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LAMARCKISM — (n.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct …
Английский словарь Webster
LAMARCKISM — ( n. ) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
LAMARCKISM — n. theory of organic evolution developed by the French naturalist Jean de Lamarck
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
LAMARCKISM — noun Etymology: J.-B. de Monet de Lamarck Date: 1884 : a theory of organic evolution asserting that environmental changes cause …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LAMARCKISM — noun the theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct …
Webster English vocab
LAMARCKISM — [ la'mα:kɪz(ə)m ] ■ noun the theory of evolution based on the supposed inheritance of acquired characteristics, devised by the …
Concise Oxford English vocab
LAMARCKISM — [La.marck.ism] n [J.-B. de Monet de Lamarck] (1884): a theory of organic evolution asserting that environmental changes cause structural changes …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
LAMARCKISM — n. the theory of evolution devised by Lamarck, French botanist and zoologist (d. 1829), based on the inheritance of acquired …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
LAMARCKISM — n. the theory of evolution devised by Lamarck, French botanist and zoologist (d. 1829), based on the inheritance of acquired …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
LAMARCKISM — n. the theory of evolution devised by Lamarck, French botanist and zoologist (d. 1829), based on the inheritance of acquired …
Oxford English vocab
LAMARCKISM — Ламаркизм
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
LAMARCKISM — n ламаркизм
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
LAMARCKISM — (n) ламаркизм
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
LAMARCKISM — n ламаркизм
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
LAMARCKISM — n ламаркизм
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
LAMARCKISM — - lamarckianism ламаркизм
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
LAMARCKISM — = lamarckianism ламаркизм
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
LAMARCKISM — сущ. ламаркизм; концепция исторического развития органического мира, разработанная Ж. Ламарком, согласно которой виды живых существ постоянно меняются под влиянием меняющихся …
Англо-Русский социологический энциклопедический словарь
LAMARCKISM — n. Pronunciation: l ə - ' mär- ˌ ki-z ə m Function: noun Etymology: J.-B. de Monet de Lamarck Date: …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
NEO-LAMARCKISM — |nē(ˌ)ō+ noun Usage: often capitalized N & usually capitalized L Etymology: ne- + lamarckism : a modern theory of evolution …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
NEO-LAMARCKISM — (n.) Lamarckism as revived, modified, and expounded by recent biologists, esp. as maintaining that the offspring inherits characters acquired by …
Английский словарь Webster
NEO-LAMARCKISM — — neo-Lamarckian , adj. , n. — neo-Lamarckist , n. /nee'oh leuh mahr"kiz euhm/ , n. Biol. Lamarckism as expounded …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
NEO-LAMARCKISM — add. ·noun lamarckism as revived, modified, and expounded by recent biologists, ·esp. as maintaining that the offspring inherits characters acquired …
Webster English vocab
LAMARCKIAN — adjective see: Lamarckism
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
LAMARCK, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE MONET, KNIGHT DE — born Aug. 1, 1744, Bazentin-le-Petit, Picardy, France died Dec. 18, 1829, Paris French biologist. He is credited with the first …
Английский словарь Британика
TRANSMUTATION — I. ˌtran(t)smyüˈtāshən, ˌtraan-, -nzm- noun Etymology: Middle English transmutacioun, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French transmutation, from Latin transmutation-, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
NEO-LAMARCKIAN — I. |nē(ˌ)ō+ adjective Usage: often capitalized N & usually capitalized L Etymology: ne- + lamarckian : of or relating to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
USE INHERITANCE — noun Etymology: use (I) : supposed inheritance by offspring of characters acquired by the parent through use or disuse of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
NEO-DARWINISM — “+ noun Usage: often capitalized N & usually capitalized D Etymology: ne- + darwinism : a theory that holds natural …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LAMARCKIANISM — -ēəˌnizəm noun ( -s ) Usage: usually capitalized : lamarckism
Webster's New International English Dictionary

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