Usually means: Early stage of organism development.
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We found 60 dictionaries that define the word embryo:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. embryo, embryo-: Merriam-Webster
  2. embryo, embryo-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. embryo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. embryo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. embryo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Embryo, embryo: Wordnik
  7. embryo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Embryo, Embryo, Embryo: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. embryo, embryo-: Wiktionary
  10. embryo, embryo-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. embryo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. embryo: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. embryo, embryo-: Dictionary.com
  14. embryo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Embryo (Pink Floyd song), Embryo (band), Embryo (disambiguation), Embryo (film), Embryo (jazz band), Embryo (song), Embryo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Embryo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. embryo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. embryo: Rhymezone
  19. Embryo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. embryo: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. embryo: FreeDictionary.org
  22. embryo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. embryo: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. embryo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  25. embryo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embryo: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embryo: Encyclopedia

Medicine (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. embryo: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Embryo: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  6. Embryo: Merck Manuals
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  10. Embryo: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  11. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  12. embryo: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  13. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  14. embryo, embryo-: Medical dictionary
  15. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  16. Embryo: Drug Medical Dictionary
  17. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. embryo: Evolution Glossary
  7. embryo: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embryo: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wikipedia (
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▸ noun:  An embryo is the initial stage of development for a multicellular organism.
▸ noun:  An embryo is an organism early in its development.
▸ noun:  "Embryo" (sometimes called "The Embryo") is a song by Pink Floyd.
▸ noun:  a world music band from Munich, West Germany (now Germany) that began in 1969.
▸ noun:  a 1976 American science fiction horror film directed by Ralph Nelson starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, and Diane Ladd with a cameo appearance by Roddy McDowall.
▸ noun:  a 3D first-person shoot 'em up video game released in 1994 for the Amiga.
▸ noun:  "Embryo" (stylized as "embryo") is the 12th single by Japanese heavy metal band Dir En Grey, released on December 19, 2001.

Similar:
embryonic, embryotic, conceptus, early, fertilized egg, in embryo, pre-embryo, preembryo, preimago, prepupa, more...

Opposite:
adult, mature, developed, aged, full-grown

Types:
zygote, blastocyst, morula, gastrula, neurula, larva, more...

Phrases:
in embryo, embryo transfer, embryo sac, embryo sacs, embryo implantation, more...

Adjectives:
human, early, day, old, young, mammalian, normal, cell, whole, single, chick

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Similar:
embryonic, embryotic, conceptus, early, fertilized egg, in embryo, pre-embryo, preembryo, preimago, prepupa, more...

Opposite:
adult, mature, developed, aged, full-grown

Types:
zygote, blastocyst, morula, gastrula, neurula, larva, more...

Phrases:
in embryo, embryo transfer, embryo sac, embryo sacs, embryo implantation, embryo rescue, frozen embryo, embryo transfers, Embryo cryopreservation, embryo biopsy, somite embryo, embryo collection, more...

Adjectives:
human, early, day, old, young, mammalian, normal, cell, whole, single, chick

Colors:
    pale pink,     soft peach,     gentle ivory,     pastel yellow,     gentle cream, more...



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