endoderm

From endo- +‎ -derm.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌen.doʊˈdɝː.m/

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endoderm (plural endoderms)

1. (anatomy, biology) One of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal, which will produce through development, the digestive system of the adult.

• ectoderm
• mesoderm

• “endoderm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “endoderm”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “endoderm”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Borrowed from French endoderme.

endoderm n (plural endoderme)

1. endoderm