Definitions for Lamarckian

Lamarckian La·marck·i·an

Spelling: [luh-mahr-kee-uh n]
IPA: /ləˈmɑr ki ən/

Lamarckian is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 417 anagrams from letters in Lamarckian (aaaciklmnr).

Definitions for Lamarckian

noun

  1. a person who holds this theory.

adjective

  1. of or relating to Jean de Lamarck or his theory of organic evolution.

Origin of Lamarckian

First recorded in 1840-50; Lamarck + -ian

Examples for Lamarckian

Oken was spinning in metaphysical Germany his fanciful parodies of the Lamarckian hypothesis.

In this controversy, however, there was another string to the Lamarckian bow.

Neither jaws nor brain can have been evolved on the Lamarckian principle.

Mr. Wallace, on the contrary, at once raised the Lamarckian spectre, and declared it exorcised.

How does the Lamarckian hypothesis explain the sterility of hybrids, for example?

He, being a Lamarckian, ascribes this to the inherited effects of use.

But even in the two Lamarckian factors there is a difference in grade.

By the Lamarckian ontogenetic degeneration is considered the result of lack of use and consequent diminished blood supply.

Mr. Wallace, on the contrary, at once raised the Lamarckian spectre, and declared it exorcized.

Even a Lamarckian will allow this to be within the range of possibility.

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