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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In embryology, a meroblastic ovum; an egg or ovum containing food-yolk or nutritive protoplasm besides the formative or germinal protoplasm: distinguished from
holoblast .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) An ovum, as that of a mammal, only partially composed of germinal matter, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to
holoblast .
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- noun biology An
ovum (egg ) that has bothgerminal andnutritive parts
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mero- + -blast
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