MORULA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: morulae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits; develops into the blastula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

conceptus; embryo; fertilized egg (an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life)

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