embryo

名词 n.
/ˈɛmbɹi.əʊ/    /ˈɛmbɹi.oʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
    — SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.
  2. An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
  3. In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.
  4. In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.
  5. A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
  6. The beginning; the first stage of anything. figuratively
    — […]while the Company little ſuſpected what a noble Work I had then in Embryo […]

词形变化

embryos plural embryones plural embrio alternative embryo alternative embryones alternative embrio’s alternative embrioes alternative embryos alternative embrioun alternative embrion alternative embryon alternative embrions alternative embryons alternative embryon alternative embryons alternative embrya alternative

词源

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