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em·bryo·phore | \ ˈem-brē-ə-ˌfō(ə)r, -ˌfȯ(ə)r 
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\Medical Definition of embryophore
: the outer cellular covering of the hexacanth embryo of a tapeworm broadly : the covering and the included embryo
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