embryo
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
embryo (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 up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
- (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
- The beginning; the first stage of anything.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation
- The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 419:
- it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo [...]
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation
- Portuguese: embrião
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