Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To form or become a gastrula.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To undergo gastrulation; become a gastrula.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb biology To form into a
gastrula
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More importantly, Nusse and his colleagues determined that Wnt-responsive cells in the embryoid bodies also spontaneously form a primitive streak, though they never truly gastrulate.
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