embryo (redirected from previllous embryo)

em·bry·o  (mbr-)

n. pl. em·bry·os

1.

a. An organism in its early stages of development, especially before it has reached a distinctively recognizable form.

b. An organism at any time before full development, birth, or hatching.

2.

a. The fertilized egg of a vertebrate animal following cleavage.

b. In humans, the prefetal product of conception from implantation through the eighth week of development.

3. Botany The minute, rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium.

4. A rudimentary or beginning stage: "To its founding fathers, the European [Economic] Community was the embryo of the United States of Europe" Economist.

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[Medieval Latin embry, from Greek embruon : en-, in; see en-² + bruein, to be full to bursting.]

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embryo [em-bree-oh]

Noun

pl -bryos

1. an unborn animal or human being in the early stages of development, in humans up to approximately the end of the second month of pregnancy

2. something in an early stage of development: the embryo of a serious comic novel [Greek embruon]

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embryo  (mbr-)

1. An animal in its earliest stage of development, before all the major body structures are represented. In humans, the embryonic stage lasts through the first eight weeks of pregnancy. In humans, other placental mammals, and other viviparous animals, young born as embryos cannot thrive. In marsupials, the young are born during the embryonic stage and complete their development outside the uterus, attached to a teat within the mother's pouch.

2. The developing young of an egg-laying animal before hatching.

3. The sporophyte of a plant in its earliest stages of development, such as the miniature, partially developed plant contained within a seed before germination.

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embryonic adjective (mbr-nk)

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	embryo - (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium plant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion phytology, botany - the branch of biology that studies plants
	2.	embryo - 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 conceptus, fertilized egg animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement blastosphere, blastula - early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs gastrula - double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm morula - a solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits; develops into the blastula umbilical, umbilical cord - membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta

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embryo

noun 1. fetus, unborn child, fertilized egg

noun 2. germ, beginning, source, root, seed, nucleus, rudiment

Translations

embryo [ˈɛmbrɪəu] n (also fig) → embrión m

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embryo [ˈɛmbrɪəu] n (also fig) → embryon m

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embryo [ˈɛmbrɪəu] n → Embryo m (fig); Keim m

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embryo [ˈɛmbrɪəu] n (also fig) → embrione m