WEISMANN as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics
   • his theory of genetic transmission ruled out the possibility of transmitting acquired characteristics (1834-1914)
   Synonym(s)
   • August Friedrich Leopold Weismann (what does August Friedrich Leopold Weismann mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Weismann is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • geneticist (what does geneticist mean?)