gastrula

1. 1.

   double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm

   Broaderembryo

   Partsarchenteron

Other forms of gastrula

plural

gastrulae

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 gastrula

What does gastrula mean?

gastrula means "double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm".

How many syllables are in gastrula?

gastrula has 3 syllables: ga-stru-la. The stress falls on "ga".

Is gastrula a common word?

gastrula 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.