Hypertext Webster Gateway: "embryonic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Embryonic \Em`bry*on"ic\, a. (Biol.)
Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.
{Embryonic} {sac or vesicle} (Bot.), the vesicle within which
the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called
also {amnios sac}, and {embryonal sac}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
embryonic
adj 1: of or relating to an embryo; "the embryonic membrane" [syn:
{embryonal}]
2: of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the embryonic
stage" [syn: {embryonal}]
3: 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)}, {embryotic}, {in embryo}]
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