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8 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun 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
originFrom German Gastrula, coined by Ernst Haeckel in his 1872 work "Biology of Calcareous Sponges". From gastr- (from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr, “stomach”) + Latin -ula.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- gastral 8
- austral 7
- argals 7
- gaults 7
- graals 7
- gulars 7
- stalag 7
- targas 7
- tragal 7
- tragus 7
- altars 6
- astral 6