embryo
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
- 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.
- In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.
- A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
- The beginning; the first stage of anything.
Pronunciation
/ˈɛmbɹi.əʊ/
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/ˈɛmbɹi.oʊ/
Word forms
embryo
embryos
embryones
embrio
embrio’s
embrioes
embrioun
embrion
embryon
embrions
embryons
embrya
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryō, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “to grow, swell”).
Derived words
coconut embryo
dysembryoma
eleutheroembryo
embryectomy
embryocardia
embryocidal
embryogenesis
embryogenetic
embryogenic
embryogony
embryography
embryoid
embryokine
embryoless
embryolike
embryology
embryoma
embryonal
embryonary
embryonic
embryonical
embryoniferous
embryony
embryopathic
embryopathy
embryophytic
embryoplastic
embryo sac
embryoscope
embryoscopy
embryostasis
embryostatic
embryotomy
embryotoxic
embryotoxicity
embryo transfer
embryotrophic
embryotropic
embryous
hybrid embryo
in embryo
interembryo
monembryony
polyembryo
postembryo
pre-embryo
proembryo
pseudembryo
typembryo
xenoembryo
Translations
Albanian: embrion
Arabic: جَنِين
Armenian: սաղմ
Azerbaijani: embrion
Azerbaijani: rüşeym
Belarusian: эмбрыён
Belarusian: заро́дак
Bengali: ভ্রুণ
Bulgarian: заро́диш
Bulgarian: ембрио́н
Burmese: သားလောင်း
Burmese: သန္ဓေသား
Catalan: embrió
Chinese Cantonese: 胚胎
Chinese Mandarin: 胎
Chinese Mandarin: 胚胎
Czech: zárodek
Czech: embryo
Danish: embryon
Dutch: embryo
Esperanto: embrio
Estonian: embrüo
Finnish: alkio
French: embryon
Georgian: ემბრიონი
Georgian: ნაყოფი
German: Embryo
Greek: έμβρυο
Ancient Greek: ἔμβρυον
Ancient Greek: κύημα
Hebrew: עֻבָּר \ עובר
Hindi: भ्रूण
Hungarian: embrió
Hungarian: magzat
Hungarian: ébrény
Icelandic: fósturvísir
Indonesian: embrio
Indonesian: janin
Italian: embrione
Japanese: 胚
Kazakh: эмбрион
Kazakh: ұрық
Khmer: គភ៌
Khmer: ជីវាណូ
Khmer: ភ្រូណ
Khmer: ពីជៈ
Khmer: ភ្រូណា
Korean: 태아
Korean: 배
Korean: 배아
Northern Kurdish: cenîn
Kyrgyz: эмбрион
Kyrgyz: түйүлдүк
Lao: ຈາວ
Lao: ພັນ
Lao: ຄັບພະລູກ
Latvian: embrijs
Lithuanian: embrionas
Lithuanian: gamalas
Macedonian: ембрио́н
Malay: embrio
Malay: janin
Malay: mudghah
Māori: kikiri
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