# Urschleim

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. Primordial soup; the protoplasm from which all life originated, according to a theory of the German biologist Ernst Haeckel.

## Etymology
From German Urschleim, from ur- + Schleim (“slime”), “primordial slime”.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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