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Definition of Statoblast
1. n. One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh- water species; -- also called winter buds.
Definition of Statoblast
1. Noun. (zoology) One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges. They are protected by a firm covering, and are usually destined to perpetuate the species during the winter season. They burst open and develop in the spring. In some freshwater sponges they serve to preserve the species during the dry season. ¹
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Definition of Statoblast
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Literary usage of Statoblast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Colony creeping or erect, often richly branched; cuticula usually transparent,
rarely brown or keeled; statoblast nearly circular, sometimes with angular ..."
2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"At the lower end of this cone the first statoblast- rudiments form, a group of
ectoderm-cells (erf) becoming detached from the central core and arranged ..."
3. Aquatic Microscopy for Beginners: Or, Common Objects from the Ponds and Ditchesby Alfred Cheatham Stokes by Alfred Cheatham Stokes (1918)
"... statoblast 266 175. ... Cristatella statoblast 267 178. Daphnia 276 179.
Bosmina 277 180. Cypris 279 181. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Essex Institute by Essex Institute (1864)
"Two figure? of the same statoblast, showing the variations in ths form and position
of the vacant spot in the statoblast of fig. 8. Fig. 10. ..."
5. Observations on Polyzoa, Sub-order Phylactolæmataby Alpheus Hyatt by Alpheus Hyatt (1868)
"Two figures of the same statoblast, showing the variations in the form and position
of the vacant spot in the statoblast of fig. 8. Fig. 10. ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"correlation, I found the correlation between the number of hooks and the length
of the periphery of the statoblast to be r= — . ..."
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