Hypertext Webster Gateway: "embryo"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Embryo \Em"bry*o\, n.; pl. {Embryos}. [F. embryon, Gr.
'e`mbryon, perh. fr. ? in (akin to L. ? E. in) + ? to be full
of, swell with; perh. akin to E. brew.] (Biol.)
The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant;
as:
(a) The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically,
before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus
(see {Fetus}).
(b) The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and
which is developed by germination.
{In embryo}, in an incipient or undeveloped state; in
conception, but not yet executed. ``The company little
suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo.''
--Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Embryo \Em"bry*o\, a.
Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an
embryo bud.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
embryo
adj : in an early stage of development; "the embryo government
staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic
nation, not yet self-governing"; "an idea in embryo"
[syn: {embryo(a)}, {embryonic}, {embryotic}, {in embryo}]
n 1: a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an
archegonium
2: 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: {conceptus}, {fertilized egg}]
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