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calicoblasts

calicoblasts is the plural of calicoblast.

Meaning of calicoblast

Noun

calicoblast (plural calicoblasts)

  1. A primary cell of the calicodermis.
    • The most recent study has been made by Hayasi (78), who finds that the calcareous lamellae which form the sclerodermites are formed by secretions of the calicoblasts and that the latter are not themselves calcified.1943, Thomas Wayland Vaughan, John West Wells, Revision of the Suborders Families, and Genera of the Scleractinia, page 32

Questions about calicoblasts

What is calicoblasts the plural of?
Calicoblasts is the plural of calicoblast.

Words near calicoblasts in the dictionary

  1. calico queens
  2. Calico-an
  3. calicoback
  4. calicoblast
  5. calicoblastic
  6. calicoblasts
  7. calicodermis
  8. calicoed
  9. calicoes
  10. calicoflower
  11. calicophoran

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