BLASTOPORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blastopore mean? 

• BLASTOPORE (noun)
  The noun BLASTOPORE has 1 sense:

1. the opening into the archenteron

  Familiarity information: BLASTOPORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLASTOPORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The opening into the archenteron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("blastopore" is a kind of...):

opening; orifice; porta (an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity)

Holonyms ("blastopore" is a part of...):

archenteron (central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity)

Derivation:

blastoporal; blastoporic (of or relating to a blastopore)

 Context examples 

The dorsal lip, which forms at the site of the gray crescent, forms the dorsal margin of the blastopore.

(Dorsal Lip, NCI Thesaurus)