1. In a manner relating to or characterized by meroblastic cleavage, in which only part of the egg cytoplasm divides during early embryonic development.
Usage: biology; technical; used in developmental biology and embryology

Examples

• The egg develops meroblastically, with cleavage occurring only in the animal hemisphere.
• In birds and reptiles, embryos develop meroblastically due to the presence of large yolk reserves.
• The fish egg undergoes meroblastically organized cell division during the blastula stage.
• Meroblastically cleaving embryos show asymmetrical division patterns compared to holoblastic types.