(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:09:54

-blast (?). [Gr. sprout, shoot.]

A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.

 

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