Usually means: Life arising from nonliving matter.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. spontaneous generation: Merriam-Webster
  2. spontaneous generation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spontaneous generation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spontaneous generation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spontaneous generation: Vocabulary.com
  6. spontaneous generation: Wordnik
  7. spontaneous generation: Wiktionary
  8. spontaneous generation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. spontaneous generation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. spontaneous generation: Dictionary.com
  11. Spontaneous generation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. spontaneous generation: Rhymezone
  13. spontaneous generation: FreeDictionary.org
  14. spontaneous generation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. spontaneous generation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spontaneous generation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. spontaneous generation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. spontaneous generation: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See spontaneous_generations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (spontaneous generation)

noun:  (evolutionary theory, historical) The fancied production of live organisms without previously existing parents from inorganic matter, or from decomposing organic matter, a notion which at one time had many supporters.

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