meroblast

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

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

Wiktionary

1. n. biology An ovum (egg) that has both germinal and nutritive parts

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (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.