释义 |
metembryo|mɛˈtɛmbrɪəʊ| [f. meta- + embryo.] The gastrula stage of a metazoon.
1887Hyatt in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 397 The proper name for these stages would..be Metembryo, in allusion to the fact that the ovum at this stage is probably essentially a Metazoon. Hence metembryˈonic a., ‘of or pertaining to a metembryo’ (Cent. Dict. 1890). |