meroblastic
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Other species, such as birds, with a lot of yolk in the egg to nourish the embryo during development, undergo meroblastic cleavage.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
This is comparatively easy in the small meroblastic ova which contain little nutritive yelk—for instance, in the marine ova of a bony fish, the development of which I observed in 1875 at Ajaccio in Corsica.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
Such a type of segmentation in which only part of the ovum segments is called meroblastic.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Latebra, lat′eb-ra, n. the cavity in the food-yolk of a meroblastic ovum.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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