GASTRULATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does gastrulation mean? • GASTRULATION (noun)
The noun GASTRULATION has 1 sense:
1. the process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cells
Familiarity information: GASTRULATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GASTRULATION (noun)
Meaning:
The process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cells
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("gastrulation" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
Holonyms ("gastrulation" is a part of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
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