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Ectoderm   Listen
noun
Ectoderm  n.  (Biol.)
(a)
The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast.
(b)
The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast.






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... far more beautiful green than that with which I had been before operating—the dingy brownish-olive variety, plumosa. The former owes its color to a green pigment diffused chiefly through the ectoderm, but has comparatively few algae in its endoderm; while in the latter the pigment is present in much smaller quantity; but the endoderm cells are crowded by algae. An ordinary specimen of plumosa was ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various



Words linked to "Ectoderm" :   ectodermic, ectoblast, ectodermal



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