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   Em·bry·o

   /ˈembrēˌō/

   

   noun

   • 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). Similar fetusfertilized eggunborn child/baby
   • ▪ the part of a seed which develops into a plant, consisting (in the mature embryo of a higher plant) of a plumule, a radicle, and one or two cotyledons.
   • 2. a thing at a rudimentary stage that shows potential for development: "a simple commodity economy is merely the embryo of a capitalist economy" Similar rudimentary versiongermnucleusseedrootsourcerudimentsbasicsbeginningstartbasismainspring

   Word Origin late Middle English: via late Latin from Greek embruon ‘fetus’, from em- ‘into’ + bruein ‘swell, grow’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. embryoid adjective

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