embryonic
Americanadjective
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pertaining to or in the state of an embryo.
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rudimentary; undeveloped.
- Synonyms:
- unfinished, immature, underdeveloped
adjective
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of or relating to an embryo
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in an early stage; rudimentary; undeveloped
Other Word Forms
- embryonically adverb
- nonembryonal adjective
- nonembryonic adjective
- nonembryonically adverb
- pseudoembryonic adjective
- unembryonal adjective
- unembryonic adjective
Etymology
Origin of embryonic
Example Sentences
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How do embryonic stem cells become brain cells, and which genes make that transformation possible?
From Science Daily
The Ivanpah plant used embryonic solar thermal technology that generated power from hundreds of thousands of mirrors focusing sunlight onto giant towers.
“We believe as a business that embryonic selection, genetic optimization, is not for the few, but for everyone,” Sadeghi said at the June launch of Nucleus’s polygenic embryo screening product.
They rarely work with finished products; instead, they nurture embryonic ideas.
From Los Angeles Times
Because both the brain and skin develop from the same embryonic layer called the ectoderm, the scientists set out to explore how these two systems might be connected.
From Science Daily
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