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Planula

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ciliatedHaving cilia.
morulanoun(embryology) A spherical mass of blastomeres that forms following the splitting of a zygote; it becomes the blastula
blastulanoun(embryology) An early form in the development of an embryo, consisting of a spherical layer of cells filled with fluid; a blastosphere.
pharyngulanoun(biology) The phylotypic stage of embryonic development of vertebrate animals, following the blastula, gastrula, and neurula.
blastulenounAlternative form of blastula. [(embryology) An early form in the development of an embryo, consisting of a spherical layer of cells filled with fluid; a blastosphere.]
planulationnounThe formation of planulae, typically by some corals
placodenoun(biology, anatomy, comparative anatomy) A platelike thickening of the epithelial layer of an embryo from which an organ, especially a sense organ, develops.
plantulenoun(botany, dated) The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
archiblastulanoun(biology) A hollow blastula, purported to be the primitive form.
gastrulanoun(embryology) A stage in the development of embryos of most animals consisting of a three-layered sac of ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm.
coeloblastulanounA hollow blastula formed from blastomeres.
planticlenoun(archaic) A young or small plant, or plant in embryo.
planoblastnoun(zoology) Any free-swimming gonophore of a hydroid; a hydroid medusa.
sperm morulanoun(biology) spermosphere
plumulenoun(zoology) A down feather.
plumulanoun(zoology) A down feather.
pluteusnoun(zoology) The free-swimming larvae of echinoderms.
anlagenoun(biology) A primordium, the initial clustering of embryonic cells from which a body part develops.
protostomanoun(zoology) In nematodes, a particular division of the stoma (mouthlike opening).
proembryonoun(botany) A cluster of cells in the ovule of a fertilized flowering plant that has not yet formed into an embryo.

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