Synonyms for embryo
ˈɛm briˌoʊem·b·ry·o

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1. embryo

   Synonyms:
   germ, nucleus, rudiment, origin

   Antonyms:
   development, shape, completion, maturity

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1. embryonoun

   (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

   Synonyms:
   fertilized egg, conceptus

2. embryo, conceptus, fertilized eggnoun

   an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life

   Synonyms:
   fertilized egg, conceptus

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1. • Botany
   • Plant

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1. embryonoun

   Synonyms:
   germ, rudiment

2. embryoadjective

   Synonyms:
   embryotic, rudimentary, undeveloped

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1. embryoadjective

   Synonyms:
   undeveloped, rudimentary

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1. List of paraphrases for "embryo":

   embryos, embryonic, foetus, jenin, fetus

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1. Kathy Niakan:

   This knowledge may improve embryo development after in vitro fertilization (IVF) and might provide better clinical treatments for infertility, any donated embryos would be used for research purposes only.

2. Ronald Parchem:

   Anytime you take a species and mix it with another, the host species [the one with the embryo] generally does better, if you take a rat cell and put it into amouse blastocyst[an early embryo], the rat cells are at a disadvantage. Thats why, in general, chimerism is very low.

3. Nicholas Fisk:

   Even if two got in, an embryo with three rather than the normal two sets of chromosomes won't survive as a fetus.

4. Deepak Chopra:

   Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

5. John Couvaras:

   Kimberly ONeill with baby London wasn't getting pregnant and moved to IVF and the embryo transfers resulted in miscarriages -- that's a huge red flag.