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BLASTOPORE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blastopore mean?
• BLASTOPORE (noun)
The noun BLASTOPORE has 1 sense:
1. the opening into the archenteron
Familiarity information: BLASTOPORE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The opening into the archenteron
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("blastopore" is a kind of...):
opening; orifice; porta (an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity)
Holonyms ("blastopore" is a part of...):
archenteron (central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity)
Derivation:
blastoporal; blastoporic (of or relating to a blastopore)
Context examples
The dorsal lip, which forms at the site of the gray crescent, forms the dorsal margin of the blastopore.
(Dorsal Lip, NCI Thesaurus)
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