Embryo
['embrɪəʊ] or ['ɛmbrɪo]
解释:
(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.
(noun.) (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium.
编辑:梅根--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant
(n.) The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus).
(n.) The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination.
(a.) Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.
整理:莉莲
同义词及近义词：
n. Germ, rudiment.
a. Embryotic, rudimentary, undeveloped.
录入:斯蒂芬妮
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Germ, nucleus, rudiment, origin
ANT:Development, shape, completion, maturity
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解释:
n. the young of an animal in its earliest stages of development: the part of a seed which forms the future plant: the beginning of anything:—pl. Em′bryos Em′bryons.—ns. Embryoc′tomy destruction of the fetus in the uterus; Embryog′eny the formation and development of the embryo; Embryog′raphy description of the embryo.—adjs. Embryolog′ic -al of or pertaining to embryology.—ns. Embryol′ogist; Embryol′ogy science of the embryo or fetus of animals.—adjs. Em′bryonate -d in the state of an embryo; Embryon′ic Embryot′ic of or relating to anything in an imperfect state: rudimentary.—ns. Embryot′omy the division of a fetus to effect delivery; Embryul′cia forcible extraction of a fetus.
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例句:
- A cocoanut shell always has a soft spot at one end because this is the provision nature has made to allow the embryo of the future tree to push its way out of the hard shell. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The birth of her daughter, embryo copy of her Raymond, filled up the measure of her content, and produced a sacred and indissoluble tie between them. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- He will be forced to admit that these great and sudden transformations have left no trace of their action on the embryo. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The embryo in the course of development generally rises in organisation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- His little form and tiny lineaments encaged the embryo of the world-spanning mind of man. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- This is rather an embryo state, a preparation for living. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The collegians he addressed, not as schoolboys, but as future citizens and embryo patriots. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- In the case of first crosses it seems to depend on several circumstances; in some instances in chief part on the early death of the embryo. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Lastly, an embryo may be developed, and then perish at an early period. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The embryo is thus left almost unaffected, and serves as a record of the past condition of the species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- It is only toward the close of its development that the embryo exhibits the characteristics of its parent species. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Important changes in the embryo or larva will probably entail changes in the mature animal. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- One of these virtuosi seemed to think that I might be an embryo, or abortive birth. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- In either of these cases the young or embryo will closely resemble the mature parent-form, as we have seen with the short-faced tumbler. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- It is an embryo or it is something doomed to die. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The extremities, however, are still absent in these embryos. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Throughout whole classes various structures are formed on the same pattern, and at a very early age the embryos closely resemble each other. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
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