Embryo

Quick meaning: Embryo is a noun meaning In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.

Meaning

In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.

More Meanings

1. An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
2. In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.
3. In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.
4. (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
5. (figurative) The beginning; the first stage of anything.

Example Sentences

[…]while the Company little ſuſpected what a noble Work I had then in Embryo […]

it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo […]

They include cells that would typically go on to develop a yolk sac, a placenta and the embryo itself.

In situ hybridisations were performed on devitellinised embryos still wrapped around the yolk and on embryos with the yolk dissected away.

Word Forms

• embryos
• embryones
• embrio
• embrio’s
• embrioes
• embrioun
• embrion
• embryon
• embrions
• embryons
• embrya

Synonyms for embryo

Depending on context, synonyms include embryonic, conceptus.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include embryonic, conceptus, early, fetus, fetal, organism.

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