Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being an embryo.
- adjective Rudimentary; incipient.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the character or being in the condition of an embryo; pertaining or relating to an embryo or embryos; hence, rudimentary; incipient; inchoate: as, an embryonic animal, germ, or cell; embryonic development or researches; an embryonic scheme; civilization is in an embryonic state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.
- adjective (Bot.) the vesicle within which the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called also
amnios sac , andembryonal sac .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective embryology Of or relating to an
embryo . - adjective figuratively Something, especially a project, that is very new and is still
evolving ; something that has yet to reach its full potential.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of an organism prior to birth or hatching
- adjective in an early stage of development
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"The term embryonic stem cell research has been greatly politicized, but it involves this process: the creation of a human embryo-often by cloning-followed by the destruction of that embryo to obtain stem cells, which are then reproduced to create a stem cell line," says Angela Martin, the director of the group.
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The need for ova in embryonic stem cell research has given rise to a new form of exploitation of women.
The World Council of Churches on Stem Cells « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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Actually, my Ph.D. thesis does not really have an evolutionary focus because I study joint regeneration in embryonic chick limb.
Boing Boing 2010
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Researchers typically use embryos left over at infertility clinics to obtain embryonic stem cells.
Robert Edward wins 2010 Nobel prize in medicine for in-vitro fertizilation Rob Stein 2010
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Do artists discover a personal style and develop their themes gradually or are these to be found in embryonic form in their earliest works?
Britain's best film directors show some early promise Philip French 2010
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An organization which is involved in embryonic stem cell funding cannot accept any other federal funding (the theory is that other funding could be shifted to embryonic stem cell research).
The Theory of Pandering, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Researchers typically use embryos left over at infertility clinics to obtain embryonic stem cells.
Robert Edward wins 2010 Nobel prize in medicine for in-vitro fertizilation Rob Stein 2010
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I have paddocks of horses in embryonic form for our Eden colony.
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Researchers typically use embryos left over at infertility clinics to obtain embryonic stem cells.
Robert Edward wins 2010 Nobel prize in medicine for in-vitro fertizilation Rob Stein 2010
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However, it does not seem that those who raise the question of the instrumentalization of women's wombs are ipso facto talking nonsense, even if, ultimately, the procedure to which they object or about which they have concerns is morally justified, or the survival of certain embryonic human beings justifies resorting to a procedure one would otherwise not be justified in undertaking.
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