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# embryo

«embryo» in Mova's school dictionary: **A living thing at a very early stage of growing, before…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an embryo, embryos)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A living thing at a very early stage of growing, before it is born or hatches: inside an egg, a seed or its mother's womb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embryo/#m1)

2) The tiny part inside a seed that will grow into a new plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embryo/#m2)

3) (in embryo) Something at a very early stage that may develop later, like an idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embryo/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, pupils learn that a chick embryo grows inside an egg, a human embryo grows in the womb, and a bean seed contains an embryo that grows into a plant. In everyday talk, «a plan in embryo» means it has only just started. Phrases: «in embryo», «a chick embryo», «embryo plant».

### examples

- A chick embryo grows inside the egg for three weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embryo/#x1)
- Inside the bean seed is a tiny embryo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embryo/#x2)
- A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embryo/#x3)
- We saw a picture of a frog embryo in the jelly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embryo/#x4)
- The idea for our club was only an embryo then. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embryo/#x5)
- The embryo gets food from the yolk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embryo/#x6)

### note

Countable; plural: embryos (no «e»). Pronounced «EM-bree-oh». Adjective: embryonic. In humans, after about eight weeks it is called a foetus (US: fetus). This is a topic where people hold different moral and religious views.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «embryo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embryo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.