embryonic

/,embri'ɔnik/

Thân thiện

The scientist examines an embryonic cell under a microscope.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Relating to an embryo: Pertaining to or characteristic of an embryo, which is an organism in its earliest stages of development before birth or hatching.
   • In a very early stage of development: Describing something that is just beginning to form or develop; rudimentary or incipient.

Usage and Examples

• Relating to an embryo (Biological context):

  • The study focused on embryonic development in birds.
  • Certain genes are active only during the embryonic stage.

• In an early stage of development (Figurative context):

  • The project is still in its embryonic phase; we have only a basic outline.
  • Her idea for the novel was merely embryonic, just a few notes in a journal.

Advanced Usage

• "Embryonic stem cells": A specific type of cell found in embryos that has the potential to develop into many different cell types in the body.
  • Research on embryonic stem cells holds promise for treating various diseases.

Variants and Related Words

• Embryo (noun): An organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation, especially before it has reached a recognizably mature form.
  • The human embryo implants in the uterine wall.
• Embryogenesis (noun): The formation and development of an embryo.
• Embryologically (adverb): In a way that relates to embryology, the branch of biology that studies embryos.
  • The structures are embryologically related.

Synonyms

• Rudimentary: Involving or limited to basic principles; not fully developed.
• Incipient: In an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop.
• Nascent: Just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.
• Germinal: Of, relating to, or in the earliest stage of development.

Antonyms

• Mature: Fully developed physically; full-grown.
• Developed: Advanced or elaborated to a specified degree.
• Established: Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. in an early stage of development
   • the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre
   • an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing
2. of an organism prior to birth or hatching
   • in the embryonic stage
   • embryologic development

Từ đồng nghĩa

• embryotic
• embryologic
• embryonal