embryo

About 5.61 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
2. noun An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
3. noun In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.
4. noun In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.
5. noun A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
6. noun The beginning; the first stage of anything.

Similar words

embryonic embryotic conceptus early fertilized egg in embryo fetus fetal organism egg

Often followed by

is of and in transfer sac or to development

Word family

embryos