Meanings
nouncalicoblast (plural calicoblasts)
plural calicoblasts
- biologyA primary cell of the calicodermis.
The most recent study has been made by Hayasi (78), who finds that the calcareous lamellae which form the sclerodermites are formed by secretions of the calicoblasts and that the latter are not themselves calcified.
1943, Thomas Wayland Vaughan, John West Wells, Revision of the Suborders Families, and Genera of the Scleractinia, page 32
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