Embryonic
[,embrɪ'ɒnɪk] or [,ɛmbrɪ'ɑnɪk]
Definition
(adj.) in an early stage of development; 'the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre'; 'an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing' .
(adj.) of an organism prior to birth or hatching; 'in the embryonic stage'; 'embryologic development' .
Checked by Dolores--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.
Edited by Gertrude
Examples
- The case, however, is different when an animal, during any part of its embryonic career, is active, and has to provide for itself. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Even if all students were embryonic scientific specialists, it is questionable whether this is the most effective procedure. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The present would not be the womb of the future: nothing would be embryonic, nothing would _grow_. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In most cases, however, the larvae, though active, still obey, more or less closely, the law of common embryonic resemblance. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The application of machinery in the harvest-field had begun with the embryonic reaper, while both the bicycle and the automobile were heralded in primitive prototypes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Its problems then were the embryonic form of the problems of to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Cheever, the embryonic phonograph and the crude telephone shared rooms and expenses. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Hence rudimentary organs in the adult are often said to have retained their embryonic condition. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Edited by Gertrude