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archiblast
[ ahr-kuh-blast ]
noun
, Biology.
- the formative part of the egg, as distinguished from the part that nourishes the embryo.
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Origin of archiblast1
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Parablast, par′a-blast, n. the supplementary or nutritive yolk of a meroblastic egg or metovum—as distinguished from the archiblast, or formative yolk.—adj.
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