Definition of Fertilized egg

1. 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.

Exact synonyms: Conceptus, Embryo
Generic synonyms: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna
Specialized synonyms: Blastosphere, Blastula, Gastrula, Morula
Terms within: Umbilical, Umbilical Cord
Derivative terms: Embryonal, Embryonic, Embryonic, Embryotic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fertilized Egg

fertility agents
fertility drug
fertility drugs
fertility rate
fertility ratio
fertility vitamin
fertilizable
fertilization age
fertilization in vitro
fertilizations
fertilize
fertilized
fertilized egg (current term)
fertilized ovum
fertilizer
fertilizers
fertilizes
fertilizing
ferula
ferulaceous
ferulae
ferular
ferulars
ferulas
ferule
feruled

Literary usage of Fertilized egg

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"The meeting, in the fertilized egg, of such a large number of homologous, but contrasting, "qualities" or "bearers," may be less favorable for a blending of ..."

2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1918)
"A represents the chromosomes of the parthenogenetic egg, C those of the fertilized egg in which maturation has been suppressed. The smallest members of the ..."

3. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"DEVELOPMENT OF THE fertilized egg. With regard to the development of the fertilized egg I ... The fertilized egg does not usually become in toto the embr, ..."

4. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1916)
"These fertilized egg cells ... it can be seen from the constitution of the fertilized egg cells Ci and C2 that the ... It will be seen in fertilized egg ..."

5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"When the fertilized egg germinates, it produces the sporo- phyte, ... One of its results, however, is to multiply the product of a single fertilized egg. ..."

6. Artificial Parthenogenesis and Fertilization by Jacques Loeb (1913)
"On this assumption we might understand why the fertilized egg is more easily ... Leaving aside temporarily the fact that the fertilized egg is protected for ..."

7. The Organism as a Whole: From a Physicochemical Viewpoint by Jacques Loeb (1916)
"Should it be possible that the spermatozoon can no longer agglutinate with the fertilized egg or that those phagocytotic reactions which we suppose to play ..."

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