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. Nina Desai:

   Embryos are extremely dynamic for a moment to moment, hour to hour, they will change, and those changes can reflect a lot about the competence of an embryo to implant on the uterine wall.

2. Deepak Chopra:

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

3. Christian Yates:

   By trying to understand piebaldism, which doesn't have a particularly severe manifestation, so it's just a change in pigmentation, we can try to use the same techniques that we've developed to try and model and understand these other more serious diseases, which effectively are caused by similar mechanisms - cells not migrating properly in the early embryo.

4. Kei Miyamoto:

   Collecting elephant eggs is difficult as you need to think of the animal's welfare, so far, we've confirmed some activity in the mouse embryo, but we're not planning to replicate the experiment with an elephant embryo just yet.

5. Michael Levin:

   I was astounded by Tufts University, frogs have a way of reproducing that they normally use but when you... liberate( the cells) from the rest of the embryo and you give them a chance to figure out how to be in a new environment, not only do they figure out a new way to move, but they also figure out apparently a new way to reproduce.