corpuscular

So the genes that would make red blood corpuscles, for example, are shut off in cells that become neurons.

Accordingly, the first third of the book is a historical overview of light, from Newton’s 17th century idea of light as “corpuscles” to experiments probing the quantum reality of photons, or particles of light, in the late 20th century.

He crushed a corpuscular moth in water, painted a mulberry leaf with it, fed it to a healthy worm, and the corpuscles developed.

This corpuscular theory of matter may throw light on the laws of chemical combination.

Sir Isaac Newton's corpuscular theory "explained all the phenomena of light, except one," and he actually assumed, for it "fits."

Herschel accepted, as did all his cotemporaries, the Newtonian or corpuscular theory of light.

But distinctly enough, we are told of one red rain that it was of corpuscular composition—red snow, rather.