Embryo Meaning and Definition


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Embryo meaning

Word: Embryo

Noun

Definitions:

1. An unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development, in particular a human offspring during the period from approximately the second to the eighth week after fertilization (after which it is usually termed a fetus).

Example sentences: "No one has yet converted a single blastomere from an eight-cell embryo into a stem cell line."

2. A thing at a rudimentary stage that shows potential for development.

Example sentences: "A simple commodity economy is merely the embryo of a capitalist economy"


Derivations:

embryonic

embryonal


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Embryo in Other Languages...

Spanish: Embrión

German: Embryo

French: Embryon

Italian: Embrione

Turkish: Embriyo


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