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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Embryo, Embryonnoun
Etymology: ἔμϐϱυων.
The bringing forth of living creatures may be accelerated, if the embryo ripeneth and perfecteth sooner. Francis Bacon, Na. Hist.
An exclusion before conformation, before the birth can bear the name of the parent, or be so much as properly called an embryon. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 6.
The earth was form’d, but in the womb a yet
Of waters, embryon immature involv’d
Appear’d not. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. vii. l. 277.In that dark womb are the signs and rudiments of an embryo world. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.
When the crude embryo careful nature breeds,
See how she works, and how her work proceeds. Richard Blackmore.While the promis’d fruit
Lies yet a little embryo, unperceiv’d
Within its crimson folds. James Thomson, Spring, l. 100.The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo. Jonathan Swift.
Webster Dictionary
Embryon
see Embryo
Etymology: [NL.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of embryon in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of embryon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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