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Embryo   /ˈɛmbriˌoʊ/   Listen
noun
Embryo  n.  (pl. embryos)  (Biol.) The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant; as:
(a)
The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus).
(b)
The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination.
In embryo, in an incipient or undeveloped state; in conception, but not yet executed. "The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo."



adjective
Embryo  adj.  Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Embryo" Quotes from Famous Books



... during the last half of the sixteenth century and early years of the seventeenth century as a result of the aforementioned investigations of Aldrovandus, Coiter, and Fabricius. Concerned with description and depiction of the anatomy of the embryo, they established a period of macro-iconography in embryology. The macro-iconographic era was empirical and based upon first-hand observation; it was concerned more with the facts than with the theories of development. This empiricism existed in competition with a declining, ...
— Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England - Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 • Charles W. Bodemer

... In the embryo, the anterior gland is derived by a proliferation of cells from the mouth area. The posterior gland represents an outgrowth of the oldest part of the nervous system. When it is traced back along the tree of the vertebrate species, it is ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... my name: And this district as mine I claim, Where once the Campbells, chiefs of fame, Held ruling power: I mark'd thy embryo-tuneful ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... the Consulate for life was only in embryo, flattering counsels poured in from all quarters, and tended to encourage the First Consul in his design of ...
— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

... and brunettes of Centre Town and Upper Town and Sandy Hill, all the "tony" Post Office clerks, all the young, flourishing, embryo and genuine lawyers, doctors, engineers, rich lumber merchants, and civil servants, ad ...
— Honor Edgeworth • Vera


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