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1 embryo
['embriəu]plural - embryos; noun1) (a young animal or plant in its earliest stages in seed, egg or womb: An egg contains the embryo of a chicken; ( also adjective) the embryo child.) embrionas2) (( also adjective) (of) the beginning stage of anything: The project is still at the embryo stage.) embrioninis•- embryological
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2 embryology
[-'olə‹i]noun (the science of the formation and development of the embryo.) embriologija
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embryo — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ developing ▪ fertilized ▪ early ▪ the cells of an early embryo ▪ frog, human … Collocations dictionary
embryo — ► NOUN (pl. embryos) 1) an unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development, especially an unborn human in the first eight weeks from conception. Compare with FETUS(Cf. ↑fetus). 2) the part of a seed which develops into a new plant. ●… … English terms dictionary
embryo — noun basis for development, beginning, bud, commencement, earliest stage, fetus, first stage, genesis, germ, immature stage, inchoation, incipience, incipient organism, origin, origination, partus, rudiment, rudimentary state, seed, source, start … Law dictionary
embryo transfer — noun also embryo transplant : a procedure used especially in animal breeding in which an embryo from a superovulated female is removed and reimplanted in the uterus of another female * * * the transfer of a developing embryo to or from the uterus … Useful english dictionary
embryo — noun (plural embryos) Etymology: Medieval Latin embryon , embryo, from Greek embryon, from en + bryein to swell; akin to Greek bryon catkin Date: 1548 1. a. archaic a vertebrate at any stage of development prior to birth or hatching b. an animal… … New Collegiate Dictionary
embryo transfer — noun Date: 1966 a procedure used especially in animal breeding in which an embryo from a superovulated female is removed and reimplanted in the uterus of another female called also embryo transplant … New Collegiate Dictionary
embryo — noun plural embryos (C) 1 an animal or human that has not yet been born, and is in its first state of development in the mother s body compare foetus 2 in embryo not yet complete, but still developing: His plans were still in embryo … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
embryo transplant — noun see embryo transfer … New Collegiate Dictionary
embryo — noun /ˈɛmbɹiəʊ/ a) In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a foetus. it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo [...] b) An… … Wiktionary
embryo transplant — noun see embryo transfer … Useful english dictionary
embryo sac — noun Date: 1844 the female gametophyte of a seed plant consisting of a thin walled sac within the nucellus that contains the egg nucleus and other nuclei which give rise to endosperm on fertilization … New Collegiate Dictionary