embryo
US: /ˈɛmbɹiˌoʊ/
UK: /ˈɛmbɹɪˌəʊ/
UK: /ˈɛmbɹɪˌəʊ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
embryo /'embriou/
- danh từ, số nhiều embryos
- (sinh vật học) phôi
- cái còn phôi thai
- in embryo: còn phôi thai, còn trứng nước, chưa phát triển
- tính từ
- còn phôi thai, còn trứng nước, chưa phát triển
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
(plural embryos) a young animal or plant in the very early stages of development before birth, or before coming out of its egg or seed, especially a human egg in the first eight weeks after FERTILIZATION: human embryos + (figurative) the embryo of an idea + an embryo politician (= one who is not yet very experienced)
Idioms: in embryo existing but not yet fully developed: The idea already existed in embryo in his earlier novels.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
developing | early
the cells of an early embryo
| human, frog, etc.
VERB + EMBRYO
implant
Two or three embryos are implanted into the woman's body.
EMBRYO + VERB
develop
Concise English dictionary
embryos'embrɪəʊ
noun
+(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
+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
