'Emboitement' definitions:

Definition of 'Emboitement'

From: GCIDE

Emboitement \Em`bo[^i]te"ment`\, n. [F., fr. embo[^i]ter to fit in, insert; en in + bo[^i]te box.] (Biol.) The hypothesis that all living things proceed from pre["e]xisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another. --Buffon. [1913 Webster]