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Webster 1913 Edition

Emboitement

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Emˊboîte′mentˊ

,

Noun.

[F., fr.

emboîter

to fit in, insert;

en

in +

boîte

box.]

(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.