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Embryo
01
an unhatched or unborn offspring in the process of development, especially a human offspring roughly from the second to the eighth week after fertilization
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Plural form
embryos
Examples
During the first trimester, the human embryo undergoes rapid cell division and differentiation to form essential organs.
02
the young, undeveloped plant nestled inside a seed or the archegonium of ferns and mosses
Examples
When you slice open a bean seed, you can spot the embryo coiled between its two seed leaves.
Lexical Tree
embryology
embryo
