Embryo

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An organism in its early stages of development, especially before it has reached a distinctively recognizable form.
  • n. An organism at any time before full development, birth, or hatching.
  • n. The fertilized egg of a vertebrate animal following cleavage.
  • n. In humans, the prefetal product of conception from implantation through the eighth week of development.
  • n. Botany The minute, rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium.
  • n. A rudimentary or beginning stage: "To its founding fathers, the European [Economic] Community was the embryo of the United States of Europe” ( Economist).
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  • n. In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
  • n. An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
  • n. In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
  • n. In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
  • n. A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
  • n. The beginning; the first stage of anything.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see fetus).
  • n. The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination.
  • adj. Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The fecundated germ of an animal in its earlier stages of development, and before it has assumed the distinctive form and structure of the parent; a germ; a rudiment; in a more extended sense, a rudimentary animal during its whole antenatal existance.
  • n. In botany, the rudimentary plant contained in the seed, the result of the action of pollen upon the ovule.
  • n. The beginning or first state of anything, while yet in a rude and undeveloped condition; the condition of anything which has been conceived but is not yet developed or executed; rudimentary state: chiefly in the phrase in embryo.
  • n. Synonyms Fetus, Germ, Rudiment. The first of these words is mainly applied to the embryos of viviparous vertebrates in the later stages of their development, when they are more subject to observation. Germ means especially the seed or fecundated ovum, and scarcely extends beyond the early stages of an embryo. Rudiment is simply the specific application of a more general term to a germ or to the early, crude, or ‘rude’ stages of an embryo.
  • Being in the first or rudimentary stage of growth or development; incipient; embryonic: as, an embryo flower.
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  • n. 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
  • n. (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    plant    flora    plant life   
    Cross Reference
    beginning    hexacanth embryo    epispermic embryo    embryo buds   
    Variant
    fetus   
    Form
    embryology    embryonic   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rudimentary    undeveloped   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fetus    infant   
     
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