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emboîtement
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emboîtement, n. [F., fr. emboîter to fit in, insert; en in + boîte box.].
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. [1913 Webster]
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