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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024em•bry•o /ˈɛmbriˌoʊ/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. -os. - Developmental Biologyan animal in the early stages of development in the womb or egg.
em•bry•on•ic /ˌɛmbriˈɑnɪk/USA pronunciation adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024em•bry•o (em′brē ō′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -os, adj. n. - Developmental Biologythe young of a viviparous animal, esp. of a mammal, in the early stages of development within the womb, in humans up to the end of the second month. Cf. fetus.
- Botanythe rudimentary plant usually contained in the seed.
- Developmental Biologyany multicellular animal in a developmental stage preceding birth or hatching.
- the beginning or rudimentary stage of anything:He charged that the party policy was socialism in embryo.
adj. - Developmental Biologyembryonic.
- Greek émbryon, noun, nominal use of neuter of émbryos ingrowing, equivalent. to em- em-2 + bry- (stem of brýein to swell) + -os adjective, adjectival suffix
- Medieval Latin embryon-, embryo
- 1580–90
- a combining form representing embryo in compound words:embryology.
Also,[esp. before a vowel,] embry-. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: embryo /ˈɛmbrɪˌəʊ/ n ( pl -bryos)- an animal in the early stages of development following cleavage of the zygote and ending at birth or hatching
- the human product of conception up to approximately the end of the second month of pregnancy
Compare fetus - a plant in the early stages of development: in higher plants, the plumule, cotyledons, and radicle within the seed
- an undeveloped or rudimentary state (esp in the phrase in embryo)
- something in an early stage of development
Etymology: 16th Century: from Late Latin, from Greek embruon, from bruein to swell |