embryo

CEFRC1

/ˈɛmbɹi.əʊ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An unborn human or animal in its early development.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.

Examples

  • A developing embryo connects to the placenta via the umbilical cord.

  • The point at which an embryo becomes a fetus has apparently been chosen arbitrarily.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈɛmbɹi.oʊ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.

  2. In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.

  3. In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.

More examples

In context

  • In situ hybridisations were performed on devitellinised embryos still wrapped around the yolk and on embryos with the yolk dissected away.

  • They include cells that would typically go on to develop a yolk sac, a placenta and the embryo itself.

  • […]while the Company little ſuſpected what a noble Work I had then in Embryo […]

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryō, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “to grow, swell”).