postembryonic in American English
(poustˌembriˈɑnɪk, ˌpoustem-)
adjectiveoccurring after the embryonic phase
Word origin
[1890–95;
post- +
embryonic]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blanket roll, blip, historicism, neoclassicism, takedownpost- is a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,”occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital)