Answer: trophoblasts

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trophoblastsA layer of tissue on the outside of a mammalian blastula, supplying the embryo with nourishment and later forming the major part of the placenta
trophoblastsTROPHOBLAST, the outermost layer of cells in the morula that attaches the fertilized ovum to the uterine wall and acts as a nutritive pathway