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subgerminal

subgerminal adjective: below the germinal disc.

Adjective

subgerminal (not comparable)

  1. Below the germinal disc.
    • Even before a chicken egg is laid, cells with greater amounts of yolk begin falling into a subgerminal cavity beneath the blastoderm.2000, Richard Grossinger, Phoebe Gloeckner, Jillian O'Malley, Embryogenesis: Species, Gender, and Identity, page 179

Origin of subgerminal

From sub- + germinal.

Questions about subgerminal

What does subgerminal mean?
Subgerminal means below the germinal disc.
What part of speech is subgerminal?
Subgerminal is an adjective.

Words near subgerminal in the dictionary

  1. subgentes
  2. subgenual
  3. subgenus
  4. subgenuses
  5. subgeometric
  6. subgerminal
  7. subgiant
  8. subgiants
  9. subgibbous
  10. subgigabit
  11. subgigabyte

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