Definition for NEP-TU'NI-AN, or NEP'TU-NIST

NEP-TU'NI-AN, or NEP'TU-NIST, n.

One who adopts the theory that the whole earth was once covered with water, or rather that the substances of the globe were former from aqueous solution; opposed to the Plutonic theory. Pinkerton. Good.

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