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gastrulations

gastrulations is the plural of gastrulation.

Meaning of gastrulation

Noun

gastrulation (plural gastrulations)

  1. The stage of embryo development at which a gastrula is formed from the blastula by the inward migration of cells.
    • The study of comparative embryology, nevertheless, would lead us to expect to find this germ layer arising by a process of gastrulation.1909, John Thomas Patterson, Gastrulation in the Pigeon's Egg, University of Chicago, page 66

Questions about gastrulations

What is gastrulations the plural of?
Gastrulations is the plural of gastrulation.

Words near gastrulations in the dictionary

  1. gastrulate
  2. gastrulated
  3. gastrulates
  4. gastrulating
  5. gastrulation
  6. gastrulations
  7. gastruloid
  8. gastruloids
  9. gasts
  10. gastulation
  11. Gasveli

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