Embryonic

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, or being an embryo.
  • adjective. Rudimentary; incipient.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the character or being in the condition of an embryo; pertaining or relating to an embryo or embryos; hence, rudimentary; incipient; inchoate: as, an embryonic animal, germ, or cell; embryonic development or researches; an embryonic scheme; civilization is in an embryonic state.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.
  • adjective. the vesicle within which the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called also amnios sac, and embryonal sac.
  • adjective. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or relating to an embryo.
  • adjective. Something, especially a project, that is very new and is still evolving; something that has yet to reach its full potential.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of an organism prior to birth or hatching
  • adjective. in an early stage of development
  • Word Usage
    ""The term embryonic stem cell research has been greatly politicized, but it involves this process: the creation of a human embryo-often by cloning-followed by the destruction of that embryo to obtain stem cells, which are then reproduced to create a stem cell line," says Angela Martin, the director of the group."
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