Hypertext Webster Gateway: "conceptus"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
conceptus
n : 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 [syn: {embryo}, {fertilized egg}]
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