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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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

  1. Embryon

    see Embryo

  2. Etymology: [NL.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of embryon in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of embryon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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