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单词 embryonated
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embryonatedadj.

Brit. /ˈɛmbrɪəneɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈɛmbriəˌneɪdᵻd/
Forms: 1600s embrionated, 1600s– embryonated.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin embryonatus , -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin embryonatus embryonate adj. + -ed suffix1. Compare later embryonate v.In sense 2 originally after French embryoné (1665 in the passage translated in quot. 1664, or earlier; the French source was published slightly later than its English translation).
1. Alchemy. Of sulphur, a metal, or other substance: present in a hidden or combined state within the earth or another substance, from which it is potentially capable of being isolated in a pure form. Cf. embryonate adj. 1, embryonative adj. Obsolete.Originally with the implication that the substance is in a rudimentary or imperfect state.
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the world > the earth > minerals > [adjective] > found in combination with other bodies
embryonated1618
embryonal1652
embryonate1653
embryonative1669
1618 T. Bretnor tr. A. Sala Opiologia viii. 50 Others would make the world beleeue they haue a certaine embrionated Sulphur of Vitriall, which is a most rare pretious medicine.
1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 67 Embryonated or imperfect shaped Sulphur.
1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 615 This embrionated salt in limestones is a stony juice.
1730 P. Shaw tr. G. E. Stahl Philos. Princ. Universal Chem. ii. iii. 227 That embryonated Gold is actually contain'd in animated Mercury, there are two Experiments to shew.
1757 tr. J. F. Henckel Pyritologia xii. 216 Should it be further alledged, that it is only an immature, or embrionated gold, this is no more than a mere subterfuge.
2. Of an egg or seed: containing an embryo. Cf. embryonate adj. 4.
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1664 P. Belon tr. N. Le Fèvre Disc. Rawleigh's Great Cordial 30 These above-named Plants ought to be gathered in their full estate, that is to say when that they are in their flowers below, and that the top or end of the stalk begins to make an embryonated seed [Fr. une semence embryonée] to appear.
1848 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 4) II. 241 In very many places an isolated Fig tree is found, which, nevertheless, produces perfect, i.e. embryonated seeds.
1863 Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 7 547 I next tried O[ncidium] graminifolium with the pollen of O. sphacelatum, and succeeded in producing a capsule, which contained about one-fourth of embryonated seeds.
1882 Bull. U.S. Fisheries Comm. 1881 346 [He]..is preparing for the next spawning and hatching season in said establishment a permanent depot for embryonated eggs of the most valuable kinds of fish from North America.
1902 New Phytologist 1 32 A further advance is perhaps represented by Cycas and Ginkgo where the seed is already fertilized at the time of its detachment, but as yet no embryo has been developed. Finally we come to Pinus, which is not only fertilized but embryonated as well.
1926 Jrnl. Parasitol. 13 141 They found that embryonated ova of the Ascaris of man, when fed to pigs, failed to grow to maturity and produce ova.
1968 Jrnl. Pediatrics 73 654/2 In the decade preceding World War II workers found that embryonated chicken eggs would support the growth of a variety of viruses and rickettsiae.
2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Nov. 22/1 Flu vaccines are produced in embryonated chicken eggs.
3. = embryonate adj. 2. Obsolete.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > [adjective]
embryonal1659
embryonated1670
embryonical1670
embryonate1693
fetal1736
embryonic1740
embryotic1742
embryonary1833
embryoid1863
preborn1962
1670 C. Merret Accomplisht Physician 17 Many of our Embryonated Physicians, that have of late years Transported themselves to Leyden & Utrick, to purchase a Degree, have been found very defective.
1699 J. Locke Reply to Bishop of Worcester's Answer to 2nd Let. 187 This little embryonated Plant, contained in the Seed that is sown, dies not.
1765 H. Jackson Ess. Brit. Isinglass 60 The farinaceous Part of the Grain upon the Couch, is to the Acrospire, what the Yolk of an Egg is to the Chick in its embryonated State.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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