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gastrulate

gastrulate verb: to form into a gastrula.

Verb

gastrulate (third-person singular simple present gastrulates, present participle gastrulating, simple past and past participle gastrulated)

  1. To form into a gastrula

Forms of gastrulate

third-person singular presentgastrulates
present participlegastrulating
past participlegastrulated
pastgastrulated

Origin of gastrulate

From gastrula + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Words formed from gastrulate

Questions about gastrulate

What does gastrulate mean?
Gastrulate means to form into a gastrula.
What part of speech is gastrulate?
Gastrulate is a verb.
What is the past tense of gastrulate?
The past tense of gastrulate is gastrulated.

Words near gastrulate in the dictionary

  1. gastrozooids
  2. gastrula
  3. gastrulae
  4. gastrular
  5. gastrulas
  6. gastrulate
  7. gastrulated
  8. gastrulates
  9. gastrulating
  10. gastrulation
  11. gastrulations

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