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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.

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  • noun biology One of the more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, such as those of mammals.

Etymologies

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ento- + -mere

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