Definition

1. Noun:

   • Embryo: An organism in the earliest stages of its development, especially before it has taken on a recognizable form. In humans, this stage lasts from conception to about eight weeks.
   • Embryonic stage / inception: The very beginning or formative stage of anything, such as an idea, movement, or project, when it is just starting to develop.

2. Adjective (Attributive):

   • Embryonic / nascent / incipient: Used to describe something that is in its earliest, most undeveloped, or formative phase.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • Các bác sĩ đang nghiên cứu sự phát triển của phôi thai. (Doctors are studying the development of the embryo.)
  • Ý tưởng đó mới chỉ là một phôi thai. (That idea is still just an embryo.)

• Adjective:

  • Đây là giai đoạn phôi thai của nền công nghiệp bán dẫn. (This is the embryonic stage of the semiconductor industry.)
  • Một kế hoạch còn rất phôi thai. (A plan that is still very nascent.)

Advanced Usage

• Used in formal, academic, or literary contexts to describe the origin or fragile beginning of complex entities.
  • Những mầm mống của cuộc cách mạng đã phôi thai từ trong lòng xã hội cũ. (The seeds of the revolution were incubated within the old society.)

Variants and Related Words

• Thai (n): fetus (a later stage of prenatal development).
• Phôi (n): embryo (often used in biological/technical contexts, e.g., - plant embryo, - steel blank/ingot).

Synonyms

• Embryo: (noun) the early developmental stage.
• Nascent: (adjective) just coming into existence.
• Incipient: (adjective) beginning to happen or develop.
• Germ: (noun) the initial stage from which something may develop.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Thời kỳ phôi thai: The embryonic period.
  • Công ty này đang ở thời kỳ phôi thai. (This company is in its embryonic period.)
• Mới phôi thai: To be newly formed/just an embryo.
  • Dự án mới phôi thai nên còn nhiều thiếu sót. (The project is newly formed, so it still has many shortcomings.)

noun

1. embryo