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embryonic |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Embryonic \Em`bry*on"ic\, a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary. {Embryonic} {sac or vesicle} (Bot.), the vesicle within which the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called also {amnios sac}, and {embryonal sac}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: embryonic adj 1: of or relating to an embryo; "the embryonic membrane" [syn: {embryonal}] 2: of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the embryonic stage" [syn: {embryonal}] 3: in an early stage of development; "the embryo government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"; "an idea in embryo" [syn: {embryo(a)}, {embryotic}, {in embryo}]
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