Embryon

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  • n. Archaic form of embryo.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective-and-noun. See embryo.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The earlier form of embryo.
  • n. [capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, a genus of leafbeetles, of the family Chrysomelidæ, with one species, E. griseovillosum, of Brazil.
  • Embryonic; rudimental; crude; not fully developed.
  • Word Usage
    "The affection of the unexperienced and untaught bird to its egg, which induces it to sit days and weeks upon it to warm the enclosed embryon, is a matter of great difficulty to explain; See Additional"
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