thelyblastn.
/ˈθɛlɪblast//ˈθiːlɪblast/ Biology.
The female element of a sexual cell.
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1877 C. S. Minot in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. XIX. 170 The sexual generation may be called genoblasts, the male arsenoblasts, the female thelyblasts (direction cells, nucleoli of Infusoria and spermatozoa).
1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Thelyblasts, term proposed by Minot to include mature ova and sperm-blastophores or seminal mother-cells.
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