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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stage of the ova of metazoic animals which is parallel with the adult colonies of certain protozoans: the monoplast of Lankester, or amphimorula of Haeckel, including the monoplacula and diploplacula of Hyatt.
  • noun A term applied to the ovum and its cleavage stages in the development of a polyzoan.

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