embryonic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: embryonic	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for embryonic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
embryonic adj of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the embryonic stage"; "embryologic development" Synonym(s): embryonic, embryologic, embryonal in an early stage of development; "the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing" Synonym(s): embryonic, embryotic
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Embryonic \Em`bry*on"ic\, a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary. {Embryonic} {sac [or] vesicle} (Bot.), the vesicle within which the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called also {amnios sac}, and {embryonal sac}.