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Definition of Embryo

1. Noun. (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium.

2. Noun. An animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life.

Definition of Embryo

1. n. The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant

2. a. Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.

Definition of Embryo

1. Noun. In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a foetus. ¹

2. Noun. An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis. ¹

3. Noun. In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body ¹

4. Noun. In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body ¹

5. Noun. (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed. ¹

6. Noun. The beginning; the first stage of anything. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embryo

1. an organism in its early stages of development [n -BRYOS]

Medical Definition of Embryo

1. In animals, those derivatives of the fertilized ovum that eventually become the offspring, during their period of most rapid development, i.e., after the long axis appears until all major structures are represented. In man, the developing organism is an embryo from about two weeks after fertilization to the end of seventh or eighth week. Origin: Gr. Embryon This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embryo

embronzing embrothel embrown embrowned embrowning embrowns embrue embrued embrues embruing

embrute embruted embrutes embruting embryatrics embryo (current term) embryo- embryo resorption embryo sac embryo technology

embryo transfer embryoblast embryocardia embryogeneses embryogenesis embryogenetic embryogenic embryogenically embryogenies embryogeny

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