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English
Etymology
From stereo- + blastula.
Noun
stereoblastula (plural stereoblastulas or stereoblastulae)
- A blastula without a clear central cavity.
- 2008, Tracey Irene Smart, Reproductive and Larval Biology of the Northeastern Pacific Polychaete Owenia collaris (Family Oweniidae) in Coos Bay, OR (page 8)
- Eggs can either be very yolky and produce stereoblastulae or have little to no yolk and produce coeloblastulae.