In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
EPIBLAST
Etymology
Noun
epiblast (plural epiblasts)
(biology, embryology) The outer layer of a blastula that, after gastrulation, becomes the ectoderm.
Synonyms
• (outer layer of a blastula that becomes the ectoderm): primitive ectoderm
Source: Wiktionary
Ep"i*blast, n. Etym: [Pref. epi- + -blast.] (Biol.)
Definition: The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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