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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To form or become a gastrula.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To undergo gastrulation; become a gastrula.

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  • verb biology To form into a gastrula

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  • More importantly, Nusse and his colleagues determined that Wnt-responsive cells in the embryoid bodies also spontaneously form a primitive streak, though they never truly gastrulate.

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