embryo
In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
Other meanings
An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.
Related words
- embryology
- dysembryoma
- eleutheroembryo
- embryectomy
- embryocardia
- embryocidal
- embryogenesis
- embryogenetic
- embryogenic
- embryogony
- embryography
- embryoid
Word history
From Ancient Greek "ἔμβρυον" (fetus).
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