Emboitement \Em`bo[^i]te"ment`\, n. [F., fr. embo[^i]ter to fit
in, insert; en in + bo[^i]te box.] (Biol.)
The hypothesis that all living things proceed from
pre["e]xisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all
future living things, inclosed one within another. --Buffon.
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