Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The passive portion of a sperm-cell or spermospore which does not give rise to spermatozoa.
- noun One of the nucleated portions of protoplasm formed in an oöcyst of Sporozoa, comparable to a sporoblast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology That portion of the
spermatospore which is notconverted intospermatoblasts , but carries them.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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A shallow groove, the primitive groove, appears on the surface of the streak, and the anterior end of this groove communicates by means of an aperture, the blastophore, with the yolk-sac.
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