embryo

noun

/ˈembriəʊ/

(plural embryos)

Idioms

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a young animal or plant in the very early stages of development before birth, or before coming out of its egg or seed, especially a human egg in the first eight weeks after fertilization
- the current debate over cloning human embryos
compare fetus
Extra Examples
- The couple has produced three embryos for implantation.
- Two or three embryos are implanted into the woman's body.
- frozen embryos stored at a fertility clinic
- the cells of an early embryo
Topics Biologyc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- developing
- fertilized
- early
- …
verb + embryo
- create
- produce
- implant
- …
embryo + verb
- develop
embryo + noun
- development
- growth
- cell
- …
See full entry
a thing at a very early stage of development
- the embryo of an idea
- an embryo central bank

Word Originlate Middle English: via late Latin from Greek embruon ‘fetus’, from em- ‘into’ + bruein ‘swell, grow’.

Idioms

in embryo

existing but not yet fully developed
- The idea already existed in embryo in his earlier novels.

单词	embryo
释义	embryo noun /ˈembriəʊ/ /ˈembriəʊ/ (plural embryos) Idioms jump to other results a young animal or plant in the very early stages of development before birth, or before coming out of its egg or seed, especially a human egg in the first eight weeks after fertilization the current debate over cloning human embryos compare fetus Extra Examples The couple has produced three embryos for implantation. Two or three embryos are implanted into the woman's body. frozen embryos stored at a fertility clinic the cells of an early embryo Topics Biologyc1 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective developing fertilized early … verb + embryo create produce implant … embryo + verb develop embryo + noun development growth cell … See full entry a thing at a very early stage of development the embryo of an idea an embryo central bank Word Originlate Middle English: via late Latin from Greek embruon ‘fetus’, from em- ‘into’ + bruein ‘swell, grow’. Idioms in embryo existing but not yet fully developed The idea already existed in embryo in his earlier novels.
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