blastosphere

1. 1.

   early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs

   Synonymsblastula

   Broaderembryo

   Narrowerblastocyst

   Partsblastocoeltrophoblast

Other forms of blastosphere

plural

blastospheres·

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 blastosphere

What does blastosphere mean?

blastosphere means "early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs".

How many syllables are in blastosphere?

blastosphere has 3 syllables: bla-sto-sphere. The stress falls on "bla".

What is another word for blastosphere?

Close synonyms include blastula. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blastosphere a common word?

blastosphere is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.