different between created vs eobiont

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?i?e?t?d/
• Hyphenation: cre?at?ed

Verb

created

1. simple past tense and past participle of create

Derived terms

• jointly-created

Anagrams

• catered, cedrate, cerated, reacted, reäcted

English

Etymology

eo- +? -biont

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ???b???nt, IPA^(key): /?i????ba??nt/
• (General American) enPR: ???b??änt, IPA^(key): /?i?o??ba??nt/

Noun

eobiont (plural eobionts)

1. a hypothetical primordial life-form or chemical precursor to a living organism
2. an artificially created creature; a Frankenstein's monster

Quotations

• 1993, Manfred Eigen, Ruthild Winkler, Laws of the Game [1]

  Only when “eobionts”—primordial organisms equipped with a primitive metabolism—began to multiply efficiently was this material used up.

• 2003, Michael Cronin, Translation and Globalization [2]

  In the Dutch novelist Harry Mulisch’s The Procedure, the protagonist Victor Werker is the creator of artificial life in the form of the Eobiont (Mulisch 2001).