Statoblasts Sentence Examples

Reproduction sexual and by means of "statoblasts," peculiar internal buds protected by a chitinous shell.

The statoblasts require a period of rest before germination, and Braem has shown that their property of floating at the surface may be beneficial to them by exposing them to the action of frost, which in some cases improves the germinating power.

The third plate also shows an individual zooid, but in even greater detail and also has additional figures of statoblasts.