different between wellspring vs embryo

English

Etymology

From Middle English wellespring, from Old English wiellspring, wiell?espring (“spring, fount, fountain”), corresponding to well +? spring. More at well, spring.

Noun

wellspring (plural wellsprings)

1. The source of water for a stream, spring or well; a fountainhead; a wellhead.
2. (figuratively) A perennial source of anything; a fountainhead of supply or emanation; resource.

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)

1. In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
2. An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
3. In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
4. In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
5. (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
6. 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

1. 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)

1. embryo

Derived terms

• embryogenese
• embryologie
• embryologisch
• embryoloog
• embryonaal
• embryoselectie
• embryotransplantatie

Finnish

Noun

embryo

1. (rare) embryo

Declension

Synonyms

• alkio

Interlingua

Noun

embryo (plural embryos)

1. 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)

1. (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)

1. (biology, botany) an embryo

Related terms

• foster

References

• “embryo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

embryo n

1. embryo; an unborn baby that is less developed than a fetus.
2. embryo; an organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.

Declension