discoblastic
English edit
Etymology edit
Ancient Greek disk + to grow.
Adjective edit
discoblastic (not comparable)
- (biology) Having a form of egg cleavage where only a small disc separates from the rest of the egg, associated with osseous fishes.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discoblastic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)