embryonn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈɛmbrɪɒn/, U.S.

/ˈɛmbriˌɑn/

Inflections: Plural embrya, embryons.

Forms: Middle English embrioun, Middle English–1700s embrion, 1500s– embryon.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin embryon.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin embryon, embrion (c1200 in a British source; also in continental sources) < ancient Greek ἔμβρυον newborn animal, embryo < ἐν- en- prefix² + βρύον moss (see bryon n.). Compare Middle French, French †embrion , French embryon (c1370), Catalan embrió (14th cent.), Spanish embrión (1617), Portuguese embrião (15th cent. as †embrio ), Italian embrione (1282). Compare later embryo n.Ancient Greek βρύον means literally ‘something that swells’, and it is this sense that is probably relevant here. Now almost entirely superseded by embryo n. The occasional persistence of the form may be influenced by words in other languages, e.g. the Romance parallels cited above.

Now rare.

A. n.

a. = embryo n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > [noun]

childOE

birtha1325

fruit of the loinsa1340

conceptiona1398

fetusa1398

embryona1400

feture1540

embryo1576

womb-infant1611

Hans-in-kelder1640

geniture1672

shapeling1674

pudding1937

a bun in the oven1951

preborn1980

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 20 (MED) Galion & auicen tellen þat of boþe þe spermes of man & of womman worchinge & suffrynge togideris..embrioun is bigete.

1567 R. Mulcaster tr. J. Fortescue Learned Commendation Lawes Eng. fol. 30^v As out of the embryon rieseth a bodie natural ruled by one head, euen so of a multitude of people arieseth a kyngedome which is a bodie mistical gou[er]ned by one man.

1590 R. Harvey Theol. Disc. Lamb of God 32 A wonderfull and most rare worke of almighty God, that an embryon of six moneths old should expresse the affection and passion of ioy, and leape for ioy in his mothers wombe.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 65 Galen was wont to giue of a buls gall the quantity of an almonde, with two spoonefuls of wine,..to a Woman that hath her childe dead within her body, which would presently cause the dead Embrion to come forth.

1674 W. Charleton Nat. Hist. Passions 60 Nothing can remain to divorce me from that common opinion which holds, that she [sc. the Rational Soul] is created immediately by God, and infused into the body of a human Embryon, so soon as that is organized, formed and prepared to receive her.

1721 T. Southerne Loyal Brother iii, in Wks. I. 44 Rip this womb That form'd him yet an embrion.

1770 A. Tolver Present State Midwifery Paris 81 The embryon is too small in the first months to require much nutriment.

1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 11 The embryon..receives nourishment from the surrounding parts.

1926 Amer. Mercury July 323/1 All that they enact is the phylogenetic rehearsal of its past by the embryon.

b. = embryo n. 1b.Quot. 1608 may show adjectival use (see sense B.), although compare use by the same author in quot. 1607 at sense A. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > [noun] > animal embryo

embryon1608

embryo1638

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 280 Afterward, it also fleyeth off the skin of from the head, and so at last, by little and little, the whole body, at which sight it appeareth as though it were an Embryon, or skinlesse Serpent.

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 922 Certain imperfect things like Embryons or little worms.

1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4020 The Sceleton of an Embryon..in an Egg.

1712 J. Warder True Amazons 20 Which otherwise would incommode the Embrion [of bees].

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 90 The animalcula and embrya.

1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 318 Cantor found in a female, nearly 11 feet long, 37 embryons.

2002 L.-M. Houdebine in K. Schellander et al. Genomics & Biotechnol. Livestock Breeding 171 A foreign DNA sequence could be integrated into the genome of a mouse and transmitted to progeny after having been microinjected into the pronucleus of one cell stage embryon.

a. figurative. = embryo n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > at the beginning [phrase] > in early stage

embryon1581

in (the) embryon1607

in embryo1631

in the bud1677

in the gristle1775

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > the first part or beginning > the earliest stage(s) > something in earliest stage

bud1579

embryon1581

infantc1595

embryo1608

rudiment1625

fetus1632

1581 T. Newton in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. sig. A3^v Theirs I know to be deliuered with singuler dexterity: myne, I confesse to be an vnflidge nestling, vnhable to flye: an vnnatural abortion, and an vnperfect Embryon.

1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie Ep. Ded. sig. ¶iii The circumstaunce of my infancie, that brought forth this Embrion [i.e. the book].

1607 W. Barksted Mirrha sig. C3 To bring vices Embrion to a forme.

1640 J. Ley Patterne of Pietie 157 Shee had certaine fits or traunces like the embrions of death.

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. 95 A small Embryon or reconception of that lately forfeited image, which..had born the perfect likeness of the Creator.

1788 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 431 It is yet, indeed, a mere embryon.

1812 P. B. Shelley Let. 29 Jan. (1964) I. 245 I perceive in you the embryon of a mighty intellect.

1883 W. Whitman Specimen Days in Specimen Days & Collect 8 You ask for items, details of my early life... You say you want to get at these details mainly as the go-befores and embryons of ‘Leaves of Grass’.

1930 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 15 87 Why..is it impossible to expect of our educational system the accomplishment of turning into fine men and women the embryons it receives to fashion?

1989 S. Fish Doing what comes Naturally xxi. 509 The entire point of rules, after all, is to..provide a center (core, germ, embryon) to which all parties can turn in the event of disputes.

†b. in (the) embryon: = in embryo at embryo n. 2b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > at the beginning [phrase] > in early stage

embryon1581

in (the) embryon1607

in embryo1631

in the bud1677

in the gristle1775

1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 8 To perfect that which in the Embryon was.

1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xxiv. 27 I was, ere yet the world in Embrion lay.

†3. Botany. = embryo n. 4. Obsolete.In quot. 1816 figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > parts of > embryo or radicle

embryon1640

germen1651

neb1658

radicle1671

embryo1682

embryo plant1692

plantula1698

plantleta1711

germ1721

niba1722

radicula1725

plantule1727

radicule1728

rostellum1760

radicale1763

rostel1783

heartlet1808

corcle1810

proembryo1849

tigelle1860

hypophysis1875

embryoid1963

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1685/1 You may see the difference of that stalke of leaves formerly exhibited, taken lineally from the vive Plant, and that of late from this of Alpinus, whose flowers and seed, is yet hid in the Embryon.

1729 J. Martyn 1st Lect. Bot. 18 From the Embryon of the Seed..arises a Style.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. C p. xxx Looking forward to the green fruits and embryons..of the days to come.

1821 tr. A. P. de Candolle & K. Sprengel Elements Philos. Plants 79 The embryon, or future plant, is either unevolved, when it resembles a small point, or a short thread; or it is evolved, and then we distinguish on it the two seed lobes.

1887 Menorah Aug. 115 Especially when the embryon of an animal or a plant is as grand a piece of workmanship as that of the animal or plant itself.

†4. Alchemy. = embryo n. 3. Compare earlier embryonated adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.Cf. quot. 1784 at sense B.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > [noun] > metal in native state of combination

embryo1652

embryon1676

1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 614 The first Beings or Embrions of mineral salts are nothing but vapours.

B. adj.

Immature, unformed, undeveloped; that is an embryo, embryonic. Cf. embryo adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature

green?a1300

rawa1398

indigest1398

unmatured?a1425

unripea1500

unseasonable1515

unbuilded1519

inchoate1534

unripened1561

uncivil1572

unmellowed1573

unmanured1577

unblown1587

ungrown1593

unpolished1594

rudimental1597

rude1600

unsalted1602

unseasoned1602

unlicked1612

embryon1613

unbakeda1616

unbloweda1616

unfledged1615

unmellow1615

sappya1627

embryous1628

unconcocteda1631

unkneaded1633

immature1635

sucking1648

vacuous1651

embryo1659

unelaborate1663

unmature1673

unformed1689

undeveloped1736

infantile1772

uncultivated1796

unelaborated1817

fetal1820

embryotic1823

embryonic1825

embryonary1833

sophomoric1837

seedling1843

rudimentary1851

unwrought1869

juvenescent1875

vealy1890

under-developed1892

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [adjective] > in early stages

buddinga1586

infant1594

embryon1613

embryous1628

inchoateda1631

inchoativea1631

crepusculous1646

rudimentary1648

rudimental1658

embryo1659

incipient1669

crepuscular1679

dawninga1700

initiant1740

germing1749

embryotic1761

germinal1804

embryonic1825

embryonary1833

inchoanta1876

adawn1881

1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. iv. 83 The Embrion Blossome of each spray.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 900 Four Champions fierce..to Battel bring Thir embryon Atoms.

1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband Prol. sig. A6 If..his Art can to those Embrion-Scenes new Life impart.

a1783 H. Brooke Imposter (1789) ii. iv. 33 The appetite for goodness, whereupon This embryon angel feeds, as in his shell, Till fledg'd for Heaven.

1784 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. 170 The argill is precipitated in the state of embryon alum.

1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. iii. 124 Nourishment..for the use of the embryon plant.

1835 E. Greswell Expos. Parables v. ii. 411 All nature's embryon store.

1874 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. X. ii. 86 England and Prussia, and the embryon United States..worked together for human freedom.

1938 Times 17 June 12/4 We do very often have occasion to..fear the consequences if embryon truths, and verities yet in their chaos are first formulated by teachers, and then reproduced by pupils, as established certainties.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	embryon
释义	embryonn.adj. Brit. /ˈɛmbrɪɒn/, U.S. /ˈɛmbriˌɑn/ Inflections: Plural embrya, embryons. Forms: Middle English embrioun, Middle English–1700s embrion, 1500s– embryon. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin embryon. Etymology: < post-classical Latin embryon, embrion (c1200 in a British source; also in continental sources) < ancient Greek ἔμβρυον newborn animal, embryo < ἐν- en- prefix² + βρύον moss (see bryon n.). Compare Middle French, French †embrion , French embryon (c1370), Catalan embrió (14th cent.), Spanish embrión (1617), Portuguese embrião (15th cent. as †embrio ), Italian embrione (1282). Compare later embryo n.Ancient Greek βρύον means literally ‘something that swells’, and it is this sense that is probably relevant here. Now almost entirely superseded by embryo n. The occasional persistence of the form may be influenced by words in other languages, e.g. the Romance parallels cited above. Now rare. A. n. 1. a. = embryo n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > [noun] childOE birtha1325 fruit of the loinsa1340 conceptiona1398 fetusa1398 embryona1400 feture1540 embryo1576 womb-infant1611 Hans-in-kelder1640 geniture1672 shapeling1674 pudding1937 a bun in the oven1951 preborn1980 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 20 (MED) Galion & auicen tellen þat of boþe þe spermes of man & of womman worchinge & suffrynge togideris..embrioun is bigete. 1567 R. Mulcaster tr. J. Fortescue Learned Commendation Lawes Eng. fol. 30^v As out of the embryon rieseth a bodie natural ruled by one head, euen so of a multitude of people arieseth a kyngedome which is a bodie mistical gou[er]ned by one man. 1590 R. Harvey Theol. Disc. Lamb of God 32 A wonderfull and most rare worke of almighty God, that an embryon of six moneths old should expresse the affection and passion of ioy, and leape for ioy in his mothers wombe. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 65 Galen was wont to giue of a buls gall the quantity of an almonde, with two spoonefuls of wine,..to a Woman that hath her childe dead within her body, which would presently cause the dead Embrion to come forth. 1674 W. Charleton Nat. Hist. Passions 60 Nothing can remain to divorce me from that common opinion which holds, that she [sc. the Rational Soul] is created immediately by God, and infused into the body of a human Embryon, so soon as that is organized, formed and prepared to receive her. 1721 T. Southerne Loyal Brother iii, in Wks. I. 44 Rip this womb That form'd him yet an embrion. 1770 A. Tolver Present State Midwifery Paris 81 The embryon is too small in the first months to require much nutriment. 1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 11 The embryon..receives nourishment from the surrounding parts. 1926 Amer. Mercury July 323/1 All that they enact is the phylogenetic rehearsal of its past by the embryon. b. = embryo n. 1b.Quot. 1608 may show adjectival use (see sense B.), although compare use by the same author in quot. 1607 at sense A. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > [noun] > animal embryo embryon1608 embryo1638 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 280 Afterward, it also fleyeth off the skin of from the head, and so at last, by little and little, the whole body, at which sight it appeareth as though it were an Embryon, or skinlesse Serpent. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 922 Certain imperfect things like Embryons or little worms. 1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4020 The Sceleton of an Embryon..in an Egg. 1712 J. Warder True Amazons 20 Which otherwise would incommode the Embrion [of bees]. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 90 The animalcula and embrya. 1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 318 Cantor found in a female, nearly 11 feet long, 37 embryons. 2002 L.-M. Houdebine in K. Schellander et al. Genomics & Biotechnol. Livestock Breeding 171 A foreign DNA sequence could be integrated into the genome of a mouse and transmitted to progeny after having been microinjected into the pronucleus of one cell stage embryon. 2. a. figurative. = embryo n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > at the beginning [phrase] > in early stage embryon1581 in (the) embryon1607 in embryo1631 in the bud1677 in the gristle1775 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > the first part or beginning > the earliest stage(s) > something in earliest stage bud1579 embryon1581 infantc1595 embryo1608 rudiment1625 fetus1632 1581 T. Newton in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. sig. A3^v Theirs I know to be deliuered with singuler dexterity: myne, I confesse to be an vnflidge nestling, vnhable to flye: an vnnatural abortion, and an vnperfect Embryon. 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie Ep. Ded. sig. ¶iii The circumstaunce of my infancie, that brought forth this Embrion [i.e. the book]. 1607 W. Barksted Mirrha sig. C3 To bring vices Embrion to a forme. 1640 J. Ley Patterne of Pietie 157 Shee had certaine fits or traunces like the embrions of death. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. 95 A small Embryon or reconception of that lately forfeited image, which..had born the perfect likeness of the Creator. 1788 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 431 It is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. 1812 P. B. Shelley Let. 29 Jan. (1964) I. 245 I perceive in you the embryon of a mighty intellect. 1883 W. Whitman Specimen Days in Specimen Days & Collect 8 You ask for items, details of my early life... You say you want to get at these details mainly as the go-befores and embryons of ‘Leaves of Grass’. 1930 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 15 87 Why..is it impossible to expect of our educational system the accomplishment of turning into fine men and women the embryons it receives to fashion? 1989 S. Fish Doing what comes Naturally xxi. 509 The entire point of rules, after all, is to..provide a center (core, germ, embryon) to which all parties can turn in the event of disputes. †b. in (the) embryon: = in embryo at embryo n. 2b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > at the beginning [phrase] > in early stage embryon1581 in (the) embryon1607 in embryo1631 in the bud1677 in the gristle1775 1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 8 To perfect that which in the Embryon was. 1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xxiv. 27 I was, ere yet the world in Embrion lay. †3. Botany. = embryo n. 4. Obsolete.In quot. 1816 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > parts of > embryo or radicle embryon1640 germen1651 neb1658 radicle1671 embryo1682 embryo plant1692 plantula1698 plantleta1711 germ1721 niba1722 radicula1725 plantule1727 radicule1728 rostellum1760 radicale1763 rostel1783 heartlet1808 corcle1810 proembryo1849 tigelle1860 hypophysis1875 embryoid1963 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1685/1 You may see the difference of that stalke of leaves formerly exhibited, taken lineally from the vive Plant, and that of late from this of Alpinus, whose flowers and seed, is yet hid in the Embryon. 1729 J. Martyn 1st Lect. Bot. 18 From the Embryon of the Seed..arises a Style. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. C p. xxx Looking forward to the green fruits and embryons..of the days to come. 1821 tr. A. P. de Candolle & K. Sprengel Elements Philos. Plants 79 The embryon, or future plant, is either unevolved, when it resembles a small point, or a short thread; or it is evolved, and then we distinguish on it the two seed lobes. 1887 Menorah Aug. 115 Especially when the embryon of an animal or a plant is as grand a piece of workmanship as that of the animal or plant itself. †4. Alchemy. = embryo n. 3. Compare earlier embryonated adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.Cf. quot. 1784 at sense B. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > [noun] > metal in native state of combination embryo1652 embryon1676 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 614 The first Beings or Embrions of mineral salts are nothing but vapours. B. adj. Immature, unformed, undeveloped; that is an embryo, embryonic. Cf. embryo adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature green?a1300 rawa1398 indigest1398 unmatured?a1425 unripea1500 unseasonable1515 unbuilded1519 inchoate1534 unripened1561 uncivil1572 unmellowed1573 unmanured1577 unblown1587 ungrown1593 unpolished1594 rudimental1597 rude1600 unsalted1602 unseasoned1602 unlicked1612 embryon1613 unbakeda1616 unbloweda1616 unfledged1615 unmellow1615 sappya1627 embryous1628 unconcocteda1631 unkneaded1633 immature1635 sucking1648 vacuous1651 embryo1659 unelaborate1663 unmature1673 unformed1689 undeveloped1736 infantile1772 uncultivated1796 unelaborated1817 fetal1820 embryotic1823 embryonic1825 embryonary1833 sophomoric1837 seedling1843 rudimentary1851 unwrought1869 juvenescent1875 vealy1890 under-developed1892 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [adjective] > in early stages buddinga1586 infant1594 embryon1613 embryous1628 inchoateda1631 inchoativea1631 crepusculous1646 rudimentary1648 rudimental1658 embryo1659 incipient1669 crepuscular1679 dawninga1700 initiant1740 germing1749 embryotic1761 germinal1804 embryonic1825 embryonary1833 inchoanta1876 adawn1881 1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. iv. 83 The Embrion Blossome of each spray. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 900 Four Champions fierce..to Battel bring Thir embryon Atoms. View more context for this quotation 1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband Prol. sig. A6 If..his Art can to those Embrion-Scenes new Life impart. a1783 H. Brooke Imposter (1789) ii. iv. 33 The appetite for goodness, whereupon This embryon angel feeds, as in his shell, Till fledg'd for Heaven. 1784 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. 170 The argill is precipitated in the state of embryon alum. 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. iii. 124 Nourishment..for the use of the embryon plant. 1835 E. Greswell Expos. Parables v. ii. 411 All nature's embryon store. 1874 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. X. ii. 86 England and Prussia, and the embryon United States..worked together for human freedom. 1938 Times 17 June 12/4 We do very often have occasion to..fear the consequences if embryon truths, and verities yet in their chaos are first formulated by teachers, and then reproduced by pupils, as established certainties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1400
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