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embryo

/ˈembriəʊ/noun

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nounembryos
  1. 1

    [C]

    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

    भ्रूण

    • The embryo develops inside the mother's womb.
    • Scientists studied the growth of chick embryos.

    Synonyms foetus zygote

  2. 2

    [C]

    a thing at a very early stage of its development

    (किसी चीज़ का) आरंभिक रूप, बीज रूप

    • the embryo of a new political movement

    Synonyms beginning germ seed root

Idioms 1

in embryo

existing but not yet fully developed

अविकसित अवस्था में, बीज रूप में

  • The plan is still very much in embryo.
  • Many of his later ideas can be seen in embryo in his first book.
◇Word family
embryonic adjectiveembryology noun
≈Synonyms and antonyms

Synonyms

foetus zygote beginning germ seed root

§Grammar and usage

Plural: embryos (not 'embryoes').

Plural में embryos लिखिए ('embryoes' गलत है)।

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The scientific study of the development of embryos is embryology.

भ्रूण के विकास का वैज्ञानिक अध्ययन embryology कहलाता है।