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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In embryology, the more granular of the two blastomeres into which the mammalian ovum divides, or a descendant of it in the first stages of development.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology One of the more
granular cells , which finally becomeinternal , in manysegmenting ova , such as those ofmammals .
Etymologies
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