Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of epiboly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Growing or covering over; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under
invagination .
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
epiboly
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Such a gastrula, formed mainly by overgrowth of the epiblast, is called an epibolic gastrula, as distinguished from the invaginate gastrula of amphioxus.
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