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1. (n.) embryo
an animal in the early stages of development in the womb or egg; in humans, the stage approximately from attachment of the fertilized egg to the uterine wall until about the eighth week of pregnancy.
2. embryo
the rudimentary plant usu. contained in the seed.
3. embryo
the beginning or rudimentary stage of anything.
4. (adj.) embryo
embryonic.
embryology.
Etymology: (1580–90; < ML embryō, s. embryōn- < Gk émbryon=em-em -2+-bryon, der. of brýein to be full, swell, teem with (cf. brýon catkin))
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) embryo
(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
2. (noun) embryo, conceptus, fertilized egg
an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) embryo
pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud
2. (noun) embryo
the first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant
3. (noun) embryo
the young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus)
4. (noun) embryo
the germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. embryo
the scientific term for the young of an animal while yet in the initial stage of development in the womb; also applied to the plant in its rudimentary stage within the seed.
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Sense: a young animal or plant in its earliest stages in seed, egg or womb
An egg contains the embryo of a chicken; (
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 Afrikaans: embrio, vrugkiem |
 Arabic: جَنين |
 Bulgarian: зародиш |
 Brazilian: embrião |
 Czech: zárodek; zárodečný |
 German: der Embryo |
 Danish: embryo; foster; foster- |
 Greek: έμβρυο |
 Spanish: embrión |
 Estonian: loode, idu |
 Farsi: جنین |
 Finnish: sikiö |
 French: embryon; embryonnaire |
 Hebrew: עוּבָּר |
 Hindi: भ्रूण |
 Croatian: zametak, embrij |
 Hungarian: embrió |
 Indonesian: janin |
 Icelandic: fósturvísir; plöntufóstur |
 Italian: embrione |
 Japanese: 胎児 |
 Korean: 씨눈, 배(胚), 태아 |
 Lithuanian: embrionas |
 Latvian: embrijs; embrija- |
 Malay: embrio |
 Dutch: embryo |
 Norwegian: foster, kime, spire |
 Polish: zarodek, embrion |
 Persian: جنین |
 Pashto: جنين |
 Portuguese: embrião |
 Romanian: embrion |
 Russian: зародыш |
 Slovak: zárodok; zárodkový |
 Slovenian: zarodek |
 Serbian: embrion |
 Swedish: embryo |
 Thai: ตัวอ่อนของสัตว์ |
 Turkish: embriyon, oğulcuk |
 Taiwanese: 胚胎，胎兒的(形容詞) |
 Ukrainian: ембріон, зародок |
 Urdu: جنین |
 Vietnamese: phôi; mầm |
 Chinese: 胚胎，胎儿的 |
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