embryo

US: /ˈɛmbɹiˌoʊ/
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