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embryonic

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[em-bree-on-ik]

adjective

  1. pertaining to or in the state of an embryo.

  2. rudimentary; undeveloped.

    Synonyms: , ,


embryonic

/ ˌɛmbrɪˈɒnɪk, ˈɛmbrɪənəl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to an embryo

  2. in an early stage; rudimentary; undeveloped

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • embryonically adverb
  • nonembryonal adjective
  • nonembryonic adjective
  • nonembryonically adverb
  • pseudoembryonic adjective
  • unembryonal adjective
  • unembryonic adjective
  • ˌ𳾲ˈDzԾ adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of embryonic1

1840–50; embryon- ( embryo ) + -ic
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As for Tesfaye, he’s not uninteresting as a screen presence, but it’s an embryonic magnetism, in need of material richer than a bunch of close-ups that culminate in a howl of a ballad.

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Bowing to religious and partisan ideologues in 2001, George W. Bush restricted embryonic stem cell research.

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There have been six different prime ministers in the UK, Brexit, a global pandemic and three Olympic Games, and women's cricket is now unrecognisable from the days when professionalism was embryonic.

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Arhgap36, a protein involved in many aspects of embryonic development, wasn’t previously known to affect skin or hair coloration.

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She applied the technique both to mouse neurons grown in a dish and to samples from superthin slices of adult and embryonic mouse brain.

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