资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Polygenism \Po*lyg"e*nism\ (p[-o]*l[i^]j"[-e]*n[i^]z'm), n. [Cf.
   F. polyg['e]nisme.] (Biol.)
   The doctrine that animals of the same species have sprung
   from more than one original pair.