Word Meanings - BLASTEMA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

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• ORGANISTA
  Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
• EMBRYO SAC
  See EMBRYONIC
• EMBRYOTOMY
  The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• EMBRYON
  See EMBRYO
• PRIMITIVENESS
  The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.
• ORGANOLOGY
  1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology
• EMBRYOGRAPHY
  The general description of embryos.
• ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
  A kind of transparent light muslin.
• TISSUED
  Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.
• ORGANOGRAPHIST
  One versed in organography.
• ORGANOGRAPHY
  A description of the organs of animals or plants.
• ORGAN
  A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action , which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• EMBRYOTROPH
  The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• UNFORM
  To decompose, or resolve into parts; to destroy the form of; to unmake. Good.
• ORGANOPHYLY
  The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly. Haeckel.
• ORGANOGENY
  Organogenesis.
• EMBRYOPLASTIC
  Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; as, embryoplastic cells.
• PROEMBRYO
  The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• MONEMBRYONY
  The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo. -- Mon*em`bry*on"ic, a.
• INEMBRYONATE
  Not embryonate.
• INTERTISSUED
  Interwoven. Shak.