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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In embryology, a name given by Haeckel to a supposed non-nucleated stage of an impregnated ovum, when it has the form-value of a simple cytode, or moner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one-celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner.

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