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embryonic

  • adjective
  • /ˈɛm.bɹi.ɒn.ɪk/

Of or relating to an embryo.

Other meanings

  1. Of a project, etc: very new and still evolving; yet to reach its full potential.

Related words

  • carcinoembryonic
  • fetoembryonic
  • interembryonic
  • monoembryonic
  • proembryonic
  • unembryonic
  • polyembryonic
  • anembryonic
  • extraembryonic
  • postembryonic
  • maternoembryonic
  • intraembryonic

Word history

From New Latin "embryonicus".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “embryonic” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.