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embryo
English
Alternative forms
- (after the Medieval Latin embryo) embrio [Middle English to the 18th century], embryo [17th century to the present] (singular forms); embryones [17th century to the present], embrio’s [17th–18th centuries], embrioes [17th century], embryos [19th century to the present] (plural forms)
- (after the stem (embry?n-) of the Medieval Latin embryo) embrioun [Middle English], embrion [Middle English to the 18th century], embryon [17th–19th centuries] (singular forms); embrions [17th C.], embryons [17th–19th centuries] (plural forms)
- (after the Ancient Greek ??????? (émbruon)) embryon [17th century to the present] (singular form); embryons [17th century to the present], embrya [18th century to the present] (plural forms)
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embry?, from Ancient Greek ??????? (émbruon, “fetus”), from ?? (en, “in-”) + ???? (brú?, “I grow, swell”). Possibly related to Hebrew ??????? (“fetus, embryo”) ('?bar).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??mb?i.??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??mb?i.o?/
- Hyphenation: em?bryo
Noun
embryo (plural embryos or embryones)
- In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
- An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
- In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
- In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
- (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
- The beginning; the first stage of anything.
- The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 419:
- it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo [...]
Derived terms
- embryology
- embryonic
- proembryo
Related terms
- fetus, foetus
- zygote
Translations
Further reading
- embryo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Morbey, merboy
Czech
Noun
embryo n
- embryo
- Synonym: zárodek
Related terms
- embryonální
Further reading
- embryo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- embryo in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
- embryo in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Dutch
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ??????? (émbruon, “fetus”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m.bri.o?/
- Hyphenation: em?bryo
Noun
embryo n (plural embryo's, diminutive embryootje n)
- embryo
Derived terms
- embryogenese
- embryologie
- embryologisch
- embryoloog
- embryonaal
- embryoselectie
- embryotransplantatie
Finnish
Noun
embryo
- (rare) embryo
Declension
Synonyms
- alkio
Interlingua
Noun
embryo (plural embryos)
- embryo
Related terms
- embryonal
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ??????? (émbruon, “fetus”).
Noun
embryo n (definite singular embryoet, indefinite plural embryo or embryoer, definite plural embryoa or embryoene)
- (biology, botany) an embryo
Related terms
- foster
References
- “embryo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ??????? (émbruon, “fetus”).
Noun
embryo n (definite singular embryoet, indefinite plural embryo, definite plural embryoa)
- (biology, botany) an embryo
Related terms
- foster
References
- “embryo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
embryo n
- embryo; an unborn baby that is less developed than a fetus.
- embryo; an organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
Declension
embryo From the web:
- what embryonic layer forms the brain
- what embryonic layers form the femur
- what embryonic layers form the urinary bladder
- what embryo means
- what embryonic stem cells
- what embryology
- what embryonic tissue is the source of neurons
- what embryos are similar to humans
diapause
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?da??p??z/
Noun
diapause (plural diapauses)
- (biology, entomology, ichthyology) A temporary pause in the growth and development of an organism due to adverse environmental conditions (especially in insects and in the embryos of many of the oviparous species of fish in the order Cyprinodontiformes)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- quiescence
French
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dja.poz/
Noun
diapause f (plural diapauses)
- (biology, entomology, ichthyology) diapause
diapause From the web:
- what diapause in insects
- diapause what does it mean
- what is diapause and its significance
- what is diapause in biology
- what is diapause class 12
- what is diapause in hindi
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