Definition of Nepionic

1. relating to the embryonic period [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nepionic

nephrotomy
nephrotoxic
nephrotoxic drug
nephrotoxicities
nephrotoxicity
nephrotoxin
nephrotoxins
nephrotrophic
nephrotropic
nephrotuberculosis
nephroureterectomy
nephroureterocystectomy
nephs
nephthytis
nepiology
nepionic (current term)
nepit
nepitella
nepits
nepotal
nepotic
nepotism
nepotisms
nepotist
nepotistic
nepotistical
nepotistically
nepotists
nepovirus
neprilysin

Literary usage of Nepionic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"This is a taking-on again of the large cardinal angles and small index of the nepionic stage. Not only is there repetition of youthful characters in the ..."

2. Stages in the Development of Sium Cicutaefolium by George Harrison Shull (1905)
"Just as the 3-lobed form was the modal condition of the first nepionic leaf, ... The third nepionic leaf (Plate III, 3) showed a partial return to the ..."

3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1921)
"On the first post-nepionic whorl I count 13 ribs; on the second there are about ... Length 5.5, diameter 5.4 mm., :*'•_• post-nepionic whorls Hilo, Hawaii; ..."

4. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... Ep-acme Acme Par-acme embryonic adolescent adult senescent nepionic ... be represented by a curve, the ascending limb will include the nepionic and ..."

5. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1898)
"The stage is sharply marked off from the succeeding nepionic. ... The relationship that the nepionic growth bears to tlie ..."

6. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1904)
"nepionic valves flat, transversely undulated, sharply marked off from the rest of ... nepionic valves with an oblique, elevated, radial keel and distinctly ..."

7. The Letter of Dr. Diego Alvarez Chanca, Dated 1484 by Diego Alvarez Chanca, Augstine Marcus Fernández de Ybarra (1907)
"This opinion is apparently based upon a supposed difference in the size of the nepionic shell. But Schubert's species is based upon an anonymous drawing ..."

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