Word: embryos
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: em
bry
os
Definition: Plural of 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
Morphemes:
Affix: embryo
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: ἐν
Language: grc
Decoded: en
Meaning: in-
Affix: βρύω
Language: grc
Decoded: bruo
Meaning: I grow, swell
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form many pluralia tantum (nouns that are almost or entirely without singular forms).