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LAMARCKISM

• LAMARCKISM (noun)
The noun LAMARCKISM has 1 sense:

1. a theory of organic evolution claiming that acquired characteristics are transmitted to offspring

Familiarity information: LAMARCKISM used as a noun is very rare.

• LAMARCKISM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A theory of organic evolution claiming that acquired characteristics are transmitted to offspring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Lamarckism" is a kind of...):

evolutionism; theory of evolution; theory of organic evolution ((biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Lamarckism"):

Neo-Lamarckism (a modern Lamarckian theory emphasizing the importance of environmental factors in genetic changes and retaining the notion of the inheritance of acquired characters)

"It's often a person's mouth broke their nose."
(English proverb)
"Talk of the devil - and the devil appears."
(Bulgarian proverb)
"The fool has his answer on the tip of his tongue."
(Arabic proverb)
"Not shooting means always missing"
(Dutch proverb)

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