EMBRYO
\ˈɛmbɹɪˌə͡ʊ], \ˈɛmbɹɪˌəʊ], \ˈɛ_m_b_ɹ_ɪ__ˌəʊ]\
Definitions of EMBRYO
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
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(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
By Princeton University
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an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant
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The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus).
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The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination.
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Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.
By Oddity Software
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The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant
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The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus).
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The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination.
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Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.
By Noah Webster.
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The prenatal stage of mammalian development characterized by rapid morphological changes and the differentiation of basic structures.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The fecundated germ, in the early stages of its development in utero. At a certain period of its increase, the name foetus is given to it, but at what period is not determined. Generally, the embryo state is considered to extend to the period of quickening.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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That portion of a fecundated ovum which is destined to constitute an independent individual. Most writers apply this term to the product of the first two or three months of gestation in the human subject, applying the word fetus after that time.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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