English
gastrulation
Gastrulation comes from German Gastrulation.
- Germanc. 1650–presentGastrulation
- Englishearliest quotation 1909gastrulation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Germanc. 1650–presentGastrulation
- Englishearliest quotation 1909gastrulation
Earliest quotation: 1909, John Thomas Patterson, Gastrulation in the Pigeon's Egg: “The study of comparative embryology, nevertheless, would lead us…”
The story
From German Gastrulation, coined by Ernst Haeckel in his 1872 work "Biology of Calcareous Sponges" (see also gastrula).
Every English word from German Gastrulation
Today it means
noun The stage of embryo development at which a gastrula is formed from the blastula by the inward migration of cells.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / German Gastrulation / gastrulation