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Gastrula: that embryonic stage resembling a sac, with an outer layer of epiblastic cells and an inner layer of hypoblastic cells.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Now the lens is an epiblastic structure, and the iris is mesoblastic.

From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan, Sir

An epiblastic tucking-in at st., the stomodaeum pre-figures the mouth; pr., the proctodaeum, is a similar posterior invagination which will become the anus.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)