figurative. = embryo, n. 2.
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释义 | the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > at the beginning [phrase] > in early stage (5) embryon1581 figurative. = embryo, n. 2. in (the) embryon1607 in (the) embryon: = in embryo at embryo, n. 2b. Obsolete. in embryo1631 in embryo: in a rudimentary or incipient stage of development. Cf. in (the) embryon at embryon, n. 2b. in the bud1677 in bud (said of plants; cf. in leaf, in flower): budding. in the bud: not yet developed; often figurative = young, immature, ‘in the germ’. to nipor c… in the gristle1775 figurative with reference to the gristly nature of the bones in infancy. in the gristle: in an initiatory, unformed, or embryonic stage of existence. |
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