"monaster" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1951 November, Shinya Inoué, Katsuma Dan, “Birefringence of the Dividing Cell”, in Journal of Morphology, volume 89, number 3:",
          "text": "After the encounter of the two pronuclei, one quadrant of the former positive cross of the monaster is missing on the side of the egg pronucleus.",
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          "ref": "2007, Leon P. Bignold, Brian L. D. Coghlan, Hubertus P.A. Jersmann, David Paul von Hansemann: Contributions to Oncology, →ISBN:",
          "text": "One finds the longest chromosomes in the vascular epithelial cells if the monaster is well developed (Fig. 24), whilst shortly beforehand (Fig. 15) the chromosomes are still rather short.",
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          "ref": "2012, Gerhard Czihak, The Sea Urchin Embryo: Biochemistry and Morphogenesis, →ISBN, page 179:",
          "text": "At the same time the middle piece breaks down and releases the centriole, around which egg cytoplasm forms the sperm monaster.",
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          "ref": "2013, J. Gray, A Textbook of Experimental Cytology, →ISBN, page 161:",
          "text": "Large monasters can be produced in egg cells by a variety of methods; drugs, such as strychnine or chloral hydrate (Hertwig, 1887 ), hypertonic sea water (Morgan, 1896; Wilson,1901;Herlant, 1918),and by mechanical agitation (Boveri, 1903; Painter, 1915).",
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        "The single aster formation that forms at the equatorial plate at the end of metaphase in mitosis."
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