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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In embryology, a meroblastic ovum; an egg or ovum containing food-yolk or nutritive protoplasm besides the formative or germinal protoplasm: distinguished from holoblast.

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

  • noun (Biol.) An ovum, as that of a mammal, only partially composed of germinal matter, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast.

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  • noun biology An ovum (egg) that has both germinal and nutritive parts

Etymologies

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mero- + -blast

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