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embryonic, a.|ɛmbrɪˈɒnɪk|
[f. med.L. embryōn-em + -ic.]
1. Pertaining to, or having the character of, an embryo.
1849Murchison Siberia xx. 483 The first or embryonic idea of the archetype. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. xiv. (1873) 396 Community in embryonic structure reveals community of descent. 1863Berkeley Brit. Mosses iii. 21 The embryonic cell. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 220 Within the..pea, there is inclosed a perfect, though embryonic plant.
2. fig. Immature, undeveloped.
1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Manners Wks. (Bohn) II. 49 Every Englishman is an embryonic chancellor. 1874Sayce Compar. Philol. i. 46 The parts of speech lay undeveloped in a kind of embryonic common sound. |