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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In biology, a holoblastic ovum; an ovum the protoplasm of which is entirely germinal: distinguished from meroblast.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See meroblast.

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  • noun biology An ovum composed entirely of germinal matter.

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holo- + -blast

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