Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Cell-substance of an ovum surrounding the nucleus.

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

  • adjective (Biol.) The protoplasmic matter which surrounds the entoblast, or cell nucleus, and undergoes segmentation.

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  • noun biology The protoplasmic matter which surrounds the entoblast, or cell nucleus, and undergoes segmentation.

Etymologies

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peri- + -blast

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  • A first cleavage of the stem-cell (cytula), B division of same into four segmentation-cells (only two visible), C the germinal disk divides into the blastoderm (b) and the periblast (p). d nutritive yelk, f fat-globule, c ovolemma, z space between the ovolemma and the ovum, filled with a clear fluid.)

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

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