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Blastide vs Bastide - What's the difference?

blastide | bastide |

As nouns the difference between blastide and bastide

is that blastide is (biology) a small clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus while bastide is mansion in provence.

blastide

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (biology) A small clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.
    • (Webster 1913)

    bastide

    English

    (wikipedia bastide)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • mansion in Provence
    • One well-known bastide''' in Provence is the '''Bastide Neuve, located in the village of La Treille near Marseille, which was a summer house for the family of French writer and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.
  • new town built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
    • Bastides began to appear in numbers under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1229), which permitted Raymond VII of Toulouse to build new towns in his shattered domains, though not to fortify them.

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