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Definitions for Embryo

[1] the young of a viviparous animal, especially of a mammal, in the early stages of development within the womb, in humans up to the end of the second month. Compare fetus.
[2] Botany . the rudimentary plant usually contained in the seed.
[3] any multicellular animal in a developmental stage preceding birth or hatching.
[4] the beginning or rudimentary stage of anything: He charged that the party policy was socialism in embryo.
[5] embryonic.
[6] a combining form representing embryo in compound words: embryology.
[7] an animal in the early stages of development following cleavage of the zygote and ending at birth or hatching
[8] the human product of conception up to approximately the end of the second month of pregnancy Compare fetus
[9] a plant in the early stages of development: in higher plants, the plumule, cotyledons, and radicle within the seed
[10] an undeveloped or rudimentary state (esp in the phrase in embryo )
[11] something in an early stage of development an embryo of an idea

Words related to Embryo

nucleus, egg, organism, incipient

Words nearby Embryo

embroil, embrown, embrue, embry-, embryectomy, embryo, embryo sac, embryo transfer, embryo vitrification, embryo-, embryoblast

Origin of Embryo

1580–90; < Medieval Latin embryon-, embryo < Greek émbryon, noun use of neuter of émbryos ingrowing, equivalent to em- em-2 + bry- (stem of brýein to swell) + -os adj. suffix

Other words from Embryo

embryonic adjective (ĕm′brē-ŏn′ ĭk )

Word origin for Embryo

C16: from Late Latin, from Greek embruon, from bruein to swell

Synonyms for Embryo

egg, nucleus, organism, incipient