embryo
nounHow to pronounce embryo:
Definition of embryo:
- embryo (noun):
- the developing human individual from the time of implantation to the end of the eighth week after conception
- an unborn animal or human being in the early stages of development, in humans up to approximately the end of the second month of pregnancy
- 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.
- an animal in the early stages of growth and differentiation that are characterized by cleavage, the laying down of fundamental tissues, and the formation of primitive organs and organ systems
Synonyms for embryo:
animal
animate being
beast
blastosphere
blastula
conceptus
creature
fauna
fertilized egg
fetus
gastrula
morula
umbilical
umbilical cord
unborn child
Antonyms for embryo:
accomplishment
cessation
close
closing
completion
conclusion
consummation
discouragement
effect
end
ending
finalisation
finalization
finish
finishing
hindrance
resolution
result
termination
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- buttress
- journeyed
- amerce
- nowhere
- fragment
- cursive
- achoo
- waylaid
- squirreled
- groggy
- unburned
- redeemed
- omen
- straying
- helek
- precess
- perjure
- sychem
- layers
- Sauville
- pallet
- floppy
- neuron
- widdle
- pinkish
- twister
- teaching's
- quicken
- Izzy
- scale-pan
- occurred
- reveals
- fluster
- untold
- bushel
- lever
- hyping
- dendral
- courser
- shingle
- doozy
- astray
- propound
- impel
- Selas
- frankness
- Estas
- plasm
- fatless
- sandstone
- … more
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