BLASTOPORE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The opening into the archenteron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("blastopore" is a kind of...):

opening; orifice; porta (an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity)

Holonyms ("blastopore" is a part of...):

archenteron (central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity)

Derivation:

blastoporal; blastoporic (of or relating to a blastopore)

Credits