Embryo
nounid
50120·updated May 18, 2026verified
an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
polysemous
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Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- conceptusfertilized egg
- plural
- Embryos
- possessive
- Embryo's
- pluralpossessive
- Embryos'
Framework definitions
- §1
- an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
- §2
- (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
- §1 · legacy_primary
- an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval lifeDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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