jan swammerdam

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jan swammerdam - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Jan Swammerdam
      n 1: Dutch naturalist and microscopist who proposed a
           classification of insects and who was among the first to
           recognize cells in animals and was the first to see red
           blood cells (1637-1680) [syn: Swammerdam, Jan Swammerdam
           ]