(in bryozoans) a resistant reproductive body produced asexually.
〔动〕（苔藓虫的）休眠芽
Example sentencesExamples
Once the valves of the statoblast fall away, the young colonies can be transferred into large aquaria.
These cell masses, known as statoblasts, remain dormant for some time and can withstand drying and freezing; when conditions are favorable, the statoblasts germinates and forms a new zooid.
Horse-shoe shaped lophophore… No fossil record except for a few statoblasts (resistant wintering structures) from Quaternary sediments.
In sorting through the sample, I select out the statoblasts that look like they have begun to swell a bit.
Genetic changes within freshwater bryozoan populations suggest temporal gene flow from statoblast banks
Definition of statoblast in US English:
statoblast
nounˈstadəˌblast
Zoology
(in bryozoans) a resistant reproductive body produced asexually.
〔动〕（苔藓虫的）休眠芽
Example sentencesExamples
Horse-shoe shaped lophophore… No fossil record except for a few statoblasts (resistant wintering structures) from Quaternary sediments.
Once the valves of the statoblast fall away, the young colonies can be transferred into large aquaria.
In sorting through the sample, I select out the statoblasts that look like they have begun to swell a bit.
These cell masses, known as statoblasts, remain dormant for some time and can withstand drying and freezing; when conditions are favorable, the statoblasts germinates and forms a new zooid.
Genetic changes within freshwater bryozoan populations suggest temporal gene flow from statoblast banks