morula

From Latin morum (“mulberry”) + -ula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːɹələ/

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morula (plural morulas or morulae)

1. (embryology) A spherical mass of blastomeres that forms following the splitting of a zygote; it becomes the blastula

• moruloid

• Lamour

Learned borrowing from New Latin morula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmorulɑ/, [ˈmo̞rulɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -orulɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mo‧ru‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): mo‧ru‧la

morula

1. (biology) morula

• solurypäle

• muurainaste

• “morula”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

morula f (plural morulas)

1. morula

• “morula”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From mora + -ula.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔ.rʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː.ru.la]

morula f (genitive morulae); first declension

1. a brief delay
   • 397 CE – 401 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Confessiones 11.15:

     quod tamen ita raptim a futuro in praeteritum transvolat, ut nulla morula extendatur.

     But this flies so rapidly from future to past that it cannot be extended by any delay.

First-declension noun.

• “morula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “morula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from New Latin morula.

• IPA^(key): /mɔˈru.la/
• Rhymes: -ula
• Syllabification: mo‧ru‧la

morula f

1. (embryology) morula (spherical mass of blastomeres that forms following the splitting of a zygote)

   faza/stadium moruli ― morula stage

• “morula”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• morula in PWN's encyclopedia