teratocyte

teratocyte
n. [Gr. teras, monster; kytos, container]
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
In Lepidoptera Pieridae, unicellular forms resulting from the embryonic membranes of parasitic Braconidae.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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  • giant cell — A term applied to a host response in which a multinucleate mass of protoplasm or cytoplasm often acts as a preferred feeding site or nurse cell ; see coenocyte, syncytium, lysigenoma, teratocyte …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

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