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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue;
[syn: ectoderm, exoderm, ectoblast]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ectoblast \Ec"to*blast\, n. [Ecto- + Gr. ? bud, germ.] (Biol.) (a) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm. (b) The outer envelope of a cell; the cell wall. --Agassiz. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ectoblast n 1: the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue [syn: ectoderm, exoderm, ectoblast]