endoderm

About 0.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun One of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal, which will produce through development, the digestive system of the adult.

Similar words

hypoblast entoderm entoblast endoblast foregut extraembryonic ectoderm germ layer gastrodermis endodermis

Often followed by

and of cells is in are to formation from

Word family

endodermal endoderms