Word Meanings - MESODERM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The layer of the blastoderm, between the ectoderm and endoderm; mesoblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm and Ectoderm. The middle body layer in some invertebrates. The middle layer of tissue in some vegetable structures.

Related words: (words related to MESODERM)

• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• LAYERING
  A propagating by layers. Gardner.
• ENDODERMIS
  A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.
• TISSUED
  Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.
• ILLUSTROUS
  Without luster.
• MESOBLASTIC
  Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.
• ILLUSTRIOUS
  1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
• BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
  Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
• ENDODERM
  The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal. The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
• MIDDLE-EARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
• MIDDLEMAN
  The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts,
• ILLUSTRATIVELY
  By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
• ILLUSTRATIVE
  1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
• MIDDLER
  One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
• MIDDLE-AGE
  Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.
• MIDDLEMOST
  Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
• ECTODERM
  The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast. The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm.
• ENDODERMAL; ENDODERMIC
  Of or pertaining to the endoderm.
• ILLUSTRIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
• WAYLAYER
  One who waylays another.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• INTERTISSUED
  Interwoven. Shak.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.