A variant term related to blastid, referring to a budding or sprouting structure in early development or plant growth.
Related to blastid with the '-ide' suffix (indicating a chemical compound or member of a group), from Greek 'blastos.' The suffix variation reflects different scientific classification systems.
Scientists loved creating multiple names for the same thing—blastid and blastide show how the same root word got different endings as biology evolved, making the terminology sometimes confusing even for experts!
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