mesoglea

Noun

Meaning

mesoglea (countable and uncountable, plural mesogleas)

A gelatinous material found between the epithelial cellular layers of jellyfish and coelenterates

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

familiar friendly festive sociable companionable communicative conversible convival

Examples

However, a ring of muscle fibres is present within the mesoglea around the rim of the dome, and the jellyfish swims by alternately contracting and relaxing these muscles. Source: Internet

In 1881, it was proposed that Ctenophora and Bilateria were more closely related to each other, since they shared features that Cnidaria lack, for example muscles in the middle layer ( mesoglea in Ctenophora, mesoderm in Bilateria). Source: Internet

They also secrete the jelly-like mesoglea that separates the layers. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

mesogenic mesogenicity mesoglass mesogleal mesoglein mesogloea