embryo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryō, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “to grow, swell”).
Inflected forms:
form: embryos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: embryones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: embrio
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: embryo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: embryones
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: embrio’s
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: embrioes
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: embryos
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: embrioun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: embrion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: embryon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: embrions
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: embryons
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: embryon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: embryons
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: embrya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
In situ hybridisations were performed on devitellinised embryos still wrapped around the yolk and on embryos with the yolk dissected away.
Though scientists do not know how stress affects gestation, Fukuda theorizes that the vulnerability of Y-bearing sperm cells, male embryos and/or male fetuses to stress is why “subtle significant changes in sex ratios” occur.
They include cells that would typically go on to develop a yolk sac, a placenta and the embryo itself.
gloss: An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
pos: noun
gloss: In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.
pos: noun
gloss: In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.
pos: noun
gloss: A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
pos: noun
gloss: The beginning; the first stage of anything.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: […]while the Company little ſuſpected what a noble Work I had then in Embryo […]
it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo […]
Lord Lufton, with his barony and twenty thousand a year, might be accepted as just good enough; but failing him there was an embryo marquis, whose fortune would be more than ten times as great, all ready to accept his child!
Derived words: coconut embryo
dysembryoma
eleutheroembryo
embryectomy
embryocardia
embryocidal
embryogenesis
embryogenetic
embryogenic
embryogony
embryography
embryoid
embryokine
embryoless
embryolike
embryology
embryoma
embryonal
embryonary
embryonic
embryonical
embryoniferous
embryony
embryopathic
embryopathy
embryophytic
embryoplastic
embryo sac
embryoscope
embryoscopy
embryostasis
embryostatic
embryotomy
embryotoxic
embryotoxicity
embryo transfer
embryotrophic
embryotropic
embryous
hybrid embryo
in embryo
interembryo
monembryony
polyembryo
postembryo
pre-embryo
proembryo
pseudembryo
typembryo
xenoembryo
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: embrion
lang: Arabic
word: جَنِين
roman: janīn
lang: Armenian
word: սաղմ
roman: saġm
lang: Azerbaijani
word: embrion
lang: Azerbaijani
word: rüşeym
lang: Belarusian
word: эмбрыён
roman: embryjón
lang: Belarusian
word: заро́дак
roman: zaródak
lang: Bengali
word: ভ্রুণ
roman: bhrun
lang: Bulgarian
word: заро́диш
roman: zaródiš
lang: Bulgarian
word: ембрио́н
roman: embrión
lang: Burmese
word: သားလောင်း
roman: sa:laung:
lang: Burmese
word: သန္ဓေသား
roman: sandhesa:
lang: Catalan
word: embrió
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 胚胎
roman: bui¹ toi¹, pui¹ toi¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 胎
roman: tāi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 胚胎
roman: pēitāi
lang: Czech
word: zárodek
lang: Czech
word: embryo
lang: Danish
word: embryon
lang: Dutch
word: embryo
lang: Esperanto
word: embrio
lang: Estonian
word: embrüo
lang: Finnish
word: alkio
lang: French
word: embryon
lang: Georgian
word: ემბრიონი
roman: embrioni
lang: Georgian
word: ნაყოფი
roman: naq̇opi
lang: German
word: Embryo
lang: Greek
word: έμβρυο
roman: émvryo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἔμβρυον
roman: émbruon
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κύημα
roman: kúēma
lang: Hebrew
word: עֻבָּר \ עובר
roman: 'ubar
lang: Hindi
word: भ्रूण
roman: bhrūṇ
lang: Hungarian
word: embrió
lang: Hungarian
word: magzat
lang: Hungarian
word: ébrény
lang: Icelandic
word: fósturvísir
lang: Indonesian
word: embrio
lang: Indonesian
word: janin
lang: Italian
word: embrione
lang: Japanese
word: 胚
roman: hai
lang: Kazakh
word: эмбрион
roman: émbrion
lang: Kazakh
word: ұрық
roman: ūryq
lang: Khmer
word: គភ៌
roman: kɔə
lang: Khmer
word: ជីវាណូ
roman: ciivaanou
lang: Khmer
word: ភ្រូណ
roman: phruun
lang: Khmer
word: ពីជៈ
roman: piicĕəʼ
lang: Khmer
word: ភ្រូណា
roman: phruunaa
lang: Korean
word: 태아
roman: taea
lang: Korean
word: 배
roman: bae
lang: Korean
word: 배아
roman: baea
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: cenîn
lang: Kyrgyz
word: эмбрион
roman: embrion
lang: Kyrgyz
word: түйүлдүк
roman: tüyüldük
lang: Lao
word: ຈາວ
roman: chāo
lang: Lao
word: ພັນ
roman: phan
lang: Lao
word: ຄັບພະລູກ
roman: khap pha lūk
lang: Latvian
word: embrijs
lang: Lithuanian
word: embrionas
lang: Lithuanian
word: gamalas
lang: Macedonian
word: ембрио́н
roman: embrión
lang: Malay
word: embrio
lang: Malay
word: janin
lang: Malay
word: mudghah
lang: Māori
word: kikiri
lang: Mongolian
word: үр хөврөл
roman: ür xövröl
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: embryo
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: embryo
lang: Pashto
word: جنين
roman: janin
lang: Persian
word: جنین
roman: janin
lang: Persian
word: رویان
roman: royân
lang: Polish
word: zarodek
lang: Polish
word: embrion
lang: Portuguese
word: embrião
lang: Romanian
word: embrion
lang: Russian
word: эмбрио́н
roman: embrión
lang: Russian
word: заро́дыш
roman: zaródyš
lang: Sanskrit
word: गर्भ
roman: garbha
lang: Sanskrit
word: भ्रूण
roman: bhrūṇa
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: за̀метак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: е̏мбрио̄н
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: е̏мбрио
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zàmetak
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȅmbriōn
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȅmbrio
lang: Slovak
word: zárodok
lang: Slovak
word: embryo
lang: Slovene
word: zarodek
lang: Spanish
word: embrión
lang: Swedish
word: embryo
lang: Tagalog
word: bilig
lang: Tajik
word: ҷанин
roman: janin
lang: Thai
word: เอ็มบริโอ
roman: em-brì-oo
lang: Turkish
word: embriyo
lang: Turkish
word: cenin
lang: Turkmen
word: şine
lang: Ukrainian
word: ембріо́н
roman: embrión
lang: Ukrainian
word: заро́док
roman: zaródok
lang: Urdu
word: جنین
roman: janīn
lang: Uyghur
word: ھامىلە
roman: hamile
lang: Uzbek
word: embrion
lang: Uzbek
word: homila
lang: Vietnamese
word: phôi
lang: Vietnamese
word: phôi thai
lang: Volapük
word: brüom