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fertilized egg vs gastrula

gastrula vs fertilized egg

fertilized egg and gastrula both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
fertilized egg Yes No No No
gastrula Yes No No No
As nouns, gastrula is a hyponym of fertilized egg; that is, gastrula is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fertilized egg:
  • fertilized egg: an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
  • gastrula: double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm
Other hyponyms of fertilized egg include blastosphere, blastula, morula.
fertilized egg (noun) gastrula (noun)
an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm
Difference between fertilized egg and gastrula

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