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CIDE DICTIONARY

-blast,  [Gr. blasto`s sprout, shoot.].
     A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

-blast, comb. form Biol.
1 an embryonic cell (erythroblast) (cf. -CYTE).
2 a germ layer of an embryo (epiblast).

Etymology
Gk blastos sprout

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