"spontaneous generation" (of life, without parent organisms), 1870, coined in Modern Latin by T.H. Huxley, from a- (3) + biogenesis.
abide
abiding
Abigail
ability
-ability
abiogenesis
abiotic
Abitur
abject
abjection
abjuration
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