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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

subgerminal en · ADJ

Etymology

From sub- + germinal.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Below the germinal disc.
    • Even before a chicken egg is laid, cells with greater amounts of yolk begin falling into a subgerminal cavity beneath the blastoderm. 2000, Richard Grossinger, Phoebe Gloeckner, Jillian O'Malley, Embryogenesis: Species, Gender, and Identity, page 179: