Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The earlier form of embryo.
  • noun [capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, a genus of leafbeetles, of the family Chrysomelidæ, with one species, E. griseovillosum, of Brazil.
  • Embryonic; rudimental; crude; not fully developed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • See embryo.

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  • noun Archaic form of embryo.

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Examples

  • The affection of the unexperienced and untaught bird to its egg, which induces it to sit days and weeks upon it to warm the enclosed embryon, is a matter of great difficulty to explain; See Additional

    Canto II 1803

  • At the end of the third week, the embryon is a little less than one-fourth of an inch in length.

    Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897

  • At the end of the third week, the embryon is a little less than one-fourth of an inch in length.

    Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877

  • I see at present that Cromwell had not even the merit of being an embryon.

    Balzac 2003

  • I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent

    ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS ROBERT M. YOUNG 1968

  • I see at present that _Cromwell_ had not even the merit of being an embryon.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • I see at present that Cromwell had not even the merit of being an embryon.

    Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

  • At the end of the fourth month, the embryon is called a fetus.

    Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897

  • -- If there is a law by which the sex of the developing embryon is determined, it probably has not yet been discovered.

    Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897

  • -- Defects and abnormalities in the development of the embryon produce all degrees of deviation from the typical human form.

    Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897

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