Embryo Definition

ĕmbrē-ō
embryos
noun
embryos
The collection of cells that has developed from the fertilized egg of a vertebrate animal, before all the major organs have developed.
American Heritage Medicine
An animal in the earliest stages of its development in the uterus or the egg, specif., in humans, from conception to about the eighth week.
Webster's New World
An early or undeveloped stage of something.
Webster's New World
The rudimentary plant contained in a seed, usually made up of hypocotyl, radicle, plumule, and cotyledons.
Webster's New World
An organism at any time before full development, birth, or hatching.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
adjective

Embryonic.

Webster's New World
affix
Embryo, embryonic.
Embryology.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Embryo

Noun

Singular:
embryo
Plural:
embryones, embryos

Origin of Embryo

  • Medieval Latin embryō from Greek embruon en- in en–2 bruein to be full to bursting

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • A Medieval Latin corruption of Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (embruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en-, “in-”) + βρύω (bruō, “I grow, swell”).

    From Wiktionary

Embryo Sentence Examples

  • After fertilization the female cell, now called the oospore, divides and part of it develops into the embryo (new sporophyte), which remains dormant for a time still protected by the ovule which has developed to become the seed.

  • The name expresses the most universal character of the class, the importance of which was first noticed by John Ray, namely, the presence of a pair of seed-leaves or cotyledons, in the plantlet or embryo contained in the seed.

  • Cuscuta has a thread-like, spirally twisted embryo with no trace of cotyledons.

  • The seeds are filled with the large embryo, the two cotyledons of which are variously folded.

  • By this time the embryo has all the organs of the adult perfected save only the reproductive; these develop only when the first host is swallowed by the second or final host, in which case the parasite attaches itself to the wall of the alimentary canal and becomes adult.

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