embryo

noun

/ˈɛmbɹi.əʊ/UK/ˈɛmbɹi.oʊ/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryō, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “to grow, swell”).

derived from ἔμβρυον
borrowed from embryō

Definitions

1
In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the…
In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
- In situ hybridisations were performed on devitellinised embryos still wrapped around the yolk and on embryos with the yolk dissected away.
- Though scientists do not know how stress affects gestation, Fukuda theorizes that the vulnerability of Y-bearing sperm cells, male embryos and/or male fetuses to stress is why “subtle significant changes in sex ratios” occur.
An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or…
An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.
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1. In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the…
  In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.
2. A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
3. 6
  The beginning
  The beginning; the first stage of anything.
  - […]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 […]
  - 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!

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Derived

coconut embryo, dysembryoma, eleutheroembryo, embryectomy, embryocardia, embryocidal, embryogenesis, embryogenetic, embryogenic, embryogony, embryography, embryoid, embryokine, embryoless, embryolike, embryology, embryoma, embryonal, embryonary, embryonic, embryonical, embryoniferous, embryony, embryopathic, embryopathy, embryophytic, embryoplastic, embryo sac, embryoscope, embryoscopy, embryostasis, embryostatic, embryotomy, embryotoxic, embryotoxicity, embryo transfer, embryotrophic, embryotropic, embryous, hybrid embryo · +10 more

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A definitional loop anchored at embryo. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at embryo. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at embryo

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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