gastrodermis
noun
the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
gastrodermal
-
a word derived from
gastrodermis.
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The true characteristic shared by all of these diverse species is that their gonads for sexual reproduction are derived from epidermal tissue, whereas in all other cnidarians they are derived from gastrodermal tissue.
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