embryo
pronunciation
How to pronounce embryo in British English:
UK [ˈembriəʊ]
How to pronounce embryo in American English:
US [ˈembrioʊ]
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- Noun:
- (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
- 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
Word Origin
- embryo
- embryo: [16] The idea underlying embryo is of ‘growing within’. The word comes from Greek émbruon, a compound verb formed from the prefix en- ‘in’ and the verb brúein ‘swell, grow’, which meant literally ‘something that grows inside the body’. English acquired it via late Latin embryo.
- embryo (n.)
- "fetus in utero at an early stage of development," mid-14c., from Medieval Latin embryo, properly embryon, from Greek embryon "a young one," in Homer, "young animal," later, "fruit of the womb," literally "that which grows," from assimilated form of en "in" (see en- (2)) + bryein "to swell, be full."
Example
- 1. A new embryo starts as a single cell with perfect symmetry .
- 2. The resulting embryo was then transferred into a surrogate dog mother .
- 3. Add sry to a female embryo , it 'll make testes .
- 4. The ethical advantage of making pluripotent stem cells without involving an actual embryo is obvious .
- 5. Every cell of the embryo contains many copies of several thousand different proteins .