blastema

1. 1.

   a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops

   Broadercell

Other forms of blastema

plural

blastemata

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blastema

What does blastema mean?

blastema means "a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops".

How many syllables are in blastema?

blastema has 3 syllables: bla-ste-ma. The stress falls on "bla".

Is blastema a common word?

blastema is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.