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embryony

noun

Etymology

From embryo + -y.

  1. derived from ἔμβρυον
  2. borrowed from embryō
  3. suffixed as embryony — “embryo + y”

Definitions

  1. The formation of an embryo

    The formation of an embryo; embryogenesis.

    • Whether flowers were pollinated or not, autonomous egg and antipodal embryonies occurred at nearly equal frequencies and progressed almost synchronously for several days.
    • Nucellar embryony allows citrus rootstock breeders to produce F1 hybrids that are highly heterozygous, but produce seedlings that are genetically uniform and identical to the mother tree.
    • Besides, according to the logic of Nogler's reasoning, the phenomenon of monozygotic cleavage embryony (formation of twins, triplets and so on), as well as of integumental embryony should be included in apomixis.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for embryony. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA