Embryo
['embrɪəʊ] or ['ɛmbrɪo]
Definition
(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.
Editor: Megan--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Germ, rudiment.
a. Embryotic, rudimentary, undeveloped.
Typist: Stephanie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Germ, nucleus, rudiment, origin
ANT:Development, shape, completion, maturity
Edited by Abraham
Definition
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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Examples
- 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- 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. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He will be forced to admit that these great and sudden transformations have left no trace of their action on the embryo. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The embryo in the course of development generally rises in organisation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- His little form and tiny lineaments encaged the embryo of the world-spanning mind of man. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This is rather an embryo state, a preparation for living. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The collegians he addressed, not as schoolboys, but as future citizens and embryo patriots. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- 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. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Lastly, an embryo may be developed, and then perish at an early period. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The embryo is thus left almost unaffected, and serves as a record of the past condition of the species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is only toward the close of its development that the embryo exhibits the characteristics of its parent species. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Important changes in the embryo or larva will probably entail changes in the mature animal. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- One of these virtuosi seemed to think that I might be an embryo, or abortive birth. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- 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. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is an embryo or it is something doomed to die. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The extremities, however, are still absent in these embryos. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Throughout whole classes various structures are formed on the same pattern, and at a very early age the embryos closely resemble each other. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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