Definitions for embryo

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embryo em·bry·o

Spelling: [em-bree-oh]

IPA: /ˈɛm briˌoʊ/

Embryo is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in embryo (bemory).

Definitions for embryo

noun

1. the young of a viviparous animal, especially of a mammal, in the early stages of development within the womb, in humans up to the end of the second month. Compare fetus.
2. Botany. the rudimentary plant usually contained in the seed.
3. any multicellular animal in a developmental stage preceding birth or hatching.
4. the beginning or rudimentary stage of anything:

adjective

1. embryonic.

Origin of embryo

1580-90; Medieval Latin embryon-, embryo Greek émbryon, noun use of neuter of émbryos ingrowing, equivalent to em- em-² + bry- (stem of brýein to swell) + -o

Examples for embryo

The intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance role was in the embryo stage.

This embryo, as it is called, then passes into other conditions.

It is this uncertainty that drives many religious objectors: they protest if there is any chance an embryo could be harmed.

Like the Mississippi amendment, the Oklahoma law defines an embryo as a legal person.

It is, therefore, arbitrary not to recognize the right of the embryo to live.

In Germany, for instance, you create one embryo and you implant that embryo.

The embryo is then ready to separate from the maternal body (Fig. 22).

Doctors bypass the tubes and place the embryo right in the womb.

From what we see of the Kaipara towns, they are very much in embryo as yet.

The embryo has the form of a spatula with the head at one end and the tail at the other.