Relating to or characteristic of a blastophore; bearing or carrying buds or reproductive structures.
From blastophore + '-ic' (suffix meaning 'of or relating to'). Formed in the late 1800s as marine biologists needed terms to describe organisms with bud-bearing structures.
Scientific adjectives like this one let biologists pack huge amounts of information into a single word—instead of saying 'related to structures that bear buds,' they just say 'blastophoric!' It's like scientific shorthand.
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