Usually means: Belief in pre-existing miniature organisms.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (preformationism)

noun:  (biology) the theory that all organisms start their existence already in a predetermined form upon conception and this form does not change in the course of their lifetime (as opposed to epigenesis)

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