Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In sponges, an indifferent germinal tissue forming the core or primitive mesoderm whence the true mesoderm and the endoderm both arise.
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- noun zoology Germinal tissue of
Porifera that formscores or developingmesoderms .
Etymologies
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cœn- + o conjuncted with blast, from Ancient Greek: κοινός (koinos, "common") combined with βλαστός (vlastos, "germ").
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