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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

Literary usage of Embryo

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

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1870)
"Growth of the embryo.—The youngest human embryos which have been met with are ... On opening it the umbilical vesicle and embryo were found not to fill its ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Tho terminal growing bud of the' axis is called the plumule or gemmule (y), and represents the ascending axis. That extremity of the embryo which produces ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Tne primary root of the embryo in all Angiosperms points towards the micropyle. The developing embryo at the end of the suspensor grows out to a varying ..."

4. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"THE embryo The first comparatively full account of the development of the embryo is that given by Treub 14 for Cycas circinalis, and this account has been ..."

5. The Early Embryology of the Chick by Bradley Merrill Patten (1920)
"Distal to the body'of the embryo the layers are termed extra-embryonic. ... As the body of the embryo takes form, a series of folds develop about it, ..."

6. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"The embryo-sac of Taraxacum. Now that morphological attention among angiosperms, especially the dicotyledons, is being focussed upon the embryo-sac, ..."

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