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CHORION

Dictionary entry overview: What does chorion mean?

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

1. outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)

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

Dictionary entry details

• CHORION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

sac (a structure resembling a bag in an animal)

Meronyms (parts of "chorion"):

chorionic villus (one of the tiny villi that stick out of the fetal chorion and combine with the mother's uterine tissue to form the placenta)

Domain category:

mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)

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

amniote (any member of the Amniota)

fetal membrane (any membrane that functions for the protection or nourishment or respiration or excretion of a developing fetus)

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