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blastemata

[bla-stee-muh]

blas·te·ma

[bla-stee-muh]
noun, plural -mas, -ma·ta [-muh-tuh] . Embryology.
an aggregation of cells in an early embryo, capable of differentiation into specialized tissue and organs.

Origin:
1840–50; < Neo-Latin < Greek blástēma (blastē- verbid stem of blasteîn to sprout + -ma noun suffix denoting result of action)

blas·te·mal, blas·te·mat·ic [blas-tuh-mat-ik] , blas·te·mic [bla-stee-mik, -steem-ik] , adjective
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Blastemata is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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blastema blas·te·ma (blā-stē'mə)
n.

  1. The formative, undifferentiated material from which cells are formed.

  2. A mass of embryonic cells from which an organ or a body part develops, either in normal development or in the regeneration of a lost body part.


blas·te'mal or blas'te·mat'ic (blās'tə-māt'ĭk) or blas·te'mic (blā-stē'mĭk) adj.

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