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phylembryo Biol.|faɪˈlɛmbrɪəʊ| [f. phyl-um + embryo.] The ancestral embryo form of a race of animals or plants. Hence phylembryˈonic a.
1899Pop. Sci. Monthly 464 The ancestral form of this group, the phylembryo, has been found in Paterina, whose adult represents the youngest stage, the beak of the shell, of other Brachiopods. 1902Webster Suppl. s.v. Phylo-, Phylembryonic. |