embryo
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryō, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον, from ἐν ("in-") + βρύω ("I grow, swell").
Pronunciation Nounembryo (plural embryos)
- In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
- An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
- In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
- In humans, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy
- (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
- (figurative) The beginning; the first stage of anything.
- 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC ↗, page lxxviii ↗:
- […] while the Company little ſuſpected what a noble Work I had then in Embryo […]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC ↗:
- it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo […]
- 1860 January – 1861 April, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published April 1861, →OCLC ↗:
- Lord Lufton, with his barony and twenty thousand a year, might be accepted as just good enough; but failing him there was an embryo marquis, whose fortune would be more than ten times as great, all ready to accept his child!
- Portuguese: embrião
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