DICTIONARY ENTRY
4 SYLLABLES
preformation
Preformation has 4 syllables: pre · for · ma · tion.
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noun. A theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell.
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