Blasted to Bleak
Blasted
(Blast"ed) a.
1. Blighted; withered.
Upon this blasted heath.
Shak. 2. Confounded; accursed; detestable.
Some of her own blasted gypsies.
Sir W. Scott.
3. Rent open by an explosive.
The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote.
Wordsworth.
Blastema
(||Blas*te"ma) n.; pl. Blastemata bud, sprout.]—> (Biol.) The structureless, protoplasmic
tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.
Blastemal
(Blas*te"mal) a. (Biol.) Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.
Blastematic
(Blas`te*mat"ic) a. (Biol.) Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.
Blaster
(Blast"er) n. One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.
Blastide
(Blas"tide) n. [Gr. sprout, fr. to grow.] (Biol.) A small, clear space in the segments of the
ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.
Blasting
(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.
Blastment
(Blast"ment) n. A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. [Obs.] Shak.
Blastocarpous
(Blas`to*car"pous) a. [Gr. sprout, germ + fruit.] (Bot.) Germinating inside the pericarp,
as the mangrove. Brande & C.
Blastocœle
(Blas"to*cœle) n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout + koi^los hollow.] (Biol.) The cavity of the blastosphere,
or segmentation cavity.
Blastocyst
(Blas"to*cyst) n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout + E. cyst.] (Biol.) The germinal vesicle.
Blastoderm
(Blas"to*derm) n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout + E. derm.] (Biol.) The germinal membrane in an
ovum, from which the embryo is developed.
Blastodermatic
(Blas`to*der*mat"ic Blas`to*der"mic) a. Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
Blastogenesis
(Blas`to*gen"e*sis) n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout + E. genesis.] (Biol.) Multiplication or increase
by gemmation or budding.
Blastoid
(Blas"toid) n. (Zoöl.) One of the Blastoidea.
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.
