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Meaning of TRIPLOBLASTIC

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Trip`lo*blas"tic\, a. [Gr. ? threefold + -blast +
-ic.] (Biol.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, that condition of the ovum
in which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which
the blastoderm splits into three layers.

 
Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: Describes an animal which, as an embryo, had three distinct embryonic tissue layers - the ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm. This is in contrast to animals which are diploblastic (has two distinct tissue layers) and those which do not have any distinct tissue layers as an embryo (nor organs and distinct tissues as an adult).
 

 

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