"blastophore" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1880, Journal of Microscopy, volume 3:",
          "text": "It does not, however, happen that the whole spermatosphere is converted into spermatoblasts; there remains a passive portion, which in the earthworm occupies a central position; this is the \"sperm-blasophore,\" or \"blastophoral cell.\"",
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          "ref": "1906, W. M. Smallwood, “Notes on Branchiobdella”, in The Biological Bulletin, page 106:",
          "text": "Associted with the formation of the male sex cells from the time they leave the testes until the spermatozoön becomes fully grown there is a protoplasmic structure, termed the blastophore (Bloomfield, '80, Calkins, '95) in Lumbricus, and the cytophore (Voigt, '85) in Branchiobdella varians.",
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          "text": "The cytophore now splits internally in such a way as to separate an inner sphere (blastophore) from an outer envelope.",
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        "(biology, obsolete) That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them."
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