Found 3 items, similar to embryo.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: embryo
benih, garba, janin
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: embryo
embryo
n 1: (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed
or an archegonium
2: 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 [syn:
conceptus,
fertilized egg]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Embryo
Embryo
\Em"bry*o\, n.; pl.
Embryos. [F. embryon, Gr.
'e`mbryon, perh. fr. ? in (akin to L. ? E. in) + ? to be full
of, swell with; perh. akin to E. brew.] (Biol.)
The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant;
as:
(a) The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically,
before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus
(see
Fetus).
(b) The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and
which is developed by germination.
[1913 Webster]
In embryo, in an incipient or undeveloped state; in
conception, but not yet executed.
“The company little
suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo.”
--Swift.
[1913 Webster]
Embryo
\Em"bry*o\, a.
Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an
embryo bud.
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