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Defenition of the word embryo

    • Defenition of the word embryo

      • An early stage of development in multicellular organisms.
      • A minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium.
      • a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
      • 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
      • in an early stage of development; "the embryo government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"; "an idea in embryo"
      • (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

    Synonyms for the word embryo

      • conceptus
      • embryonic
      • embryotic
      • fertilized egg
      • in embryo
      • kernel
      • origin
      • rudiment
      • seed

    Similar words in the embryo

      • early
      • embryo
      • embryo's
      • embryologist
      • embryologist's
      • embryologists
      • embryology
      • embryology's
      • embryonic
      • embryos

    Meronymys for the word embryo

      • umbilical cord

    Hyponyms for the word embryo

      • blastodermic vesicle
      • blastosphere
      • blastula
      • gastrula
      • morula

    Hypernyms for the word embryo

      • animal
      • animate being
      • beast
      • brute
      • creature
      • fauna
      • flora
      • plant
      • plant life

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