The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote.
Wordsworth.
||Blas*te"ma (&?;), n.; pl. Blastemata (&?;). [Gr. &?; bud, sprout.] (Biol.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.
Blas*te"mal (&?;), a. (Biol.) Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.
Blas`te*mat"ic (&?;), a. (Biol.) Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.
Blast"er (&?;), n. One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.
Blas"tide (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; sprout, fr. &?; to grow.] (Biol.) A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.
Blast"ing (&?;), n. 1. A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew.
Amos iv. 9.
2. The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts.
Blast"ment (&?;), n. A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. [Obs.] Shak.
Blas`to*car"pous (&?;), a. [Gr. &?; sprout, germ + &?; fruit.] (Bot.) Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. Brande & C.
Blas"to*cœle (&?;), n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout + koi^los hollow.] (Biol.) The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity.
Blas"to*cyst (&?;), n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout + E. cyst.] (Biol.) The germinal vesicle.
Blas"to*derm (&?;), n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout + E. derm.] (Biol.) The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.
{ Blas`to*der*mat"ic (&?;), Blas`to*der"mic (&?;), } a. Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
Blas`to*gen"e*sis (&?;), n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout + E. genesis.] (Biol.) Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.
Blas"toid (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Blastoidea.
||Blas*toid"e*a (&?;), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. blasto`s sprout + -oid.] (Zoöl.) One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.
Blas"to*mere (&?;), n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout + -mere.] (Biol.) One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour.
{ Blas`toph"o*ral (&?;), Blas`to*phor"ic (&?;), } a. Relating to the blastophore.
Blas"to*phore (&?;), n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout + &?; to bear.] (Biol.) That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
Blas"to*pore (&?;), n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout + E. pore.] (Biol.) The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron. [See Illust. of Invagination.] Balfour.
Blas"to*sphere (&?;), n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout + E. sphere.] (Biol.) The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. [See Illust. of Invagination.]
Blas"to*style (&?;), n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout, bud + &?; a pillar.] (Zoöl.) In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata.
Blast" pipe` (&?;). The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.
||Blas"tu*la (&?;), n. [NL., dim. of Gr. blasto`s a sprout.] (Biol.) That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.
Blas"tule (&?;), n. (Biol.) Same as Blastula.
Blast"y (&?;), a. 1. Affected by blasts; gusty.