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- Ancient Greekβλᾰστᾰ́νω (blăstắnō)
- Ancient Greekβλαστός (blastós)
- English todayblasto-
From Ancient Greek βλαστός (blastós, “a germ, bud, sprout, shoot”), from βλαστάνω (blastánō, “to bud, sprout, grow, properly of plants, but also of animals”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekβλαστός all →
blastulablast cell
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.