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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.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

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