D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Polygenist

/(-nĭst)/ · Po·lyg·e·nist · IPA
01 n. One who maintains that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair; -- opposed to monogenist.
  1. 1.
    One who maintains that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair; -- opposed to monogenist.(Biol.)