Embryonic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Embryonic \Em`bry*on"ic\, a. (Biol.)
     Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Embryonic sac} or {Embryonic vesicle} (Bot.), the vesicle
        within which the embryo is developed in the ovule; --


        sometimes called also {amnios sac}, and {embryonal sac}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  embryonic
       adj 1: of or relating to an embryo; "the embryonic membrane" [syn:
              {embryonal}]
       2: of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the embryonic
          stage"; "embryologic development" [syn: {embryologic}, {embryonal}]
       3: in an early stage of development; "the embryo government
          staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic
          nation, not yet self-governing" [syn: {embryotic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  142 Moby Thesaurus words for "embryonic":
     abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, arrested, atomic,
     autochthonous, backward, basal, basic, beginning, budding, callow,
     central, coarse, corpuscular, creative, crucial, crude, defective,
     deficient, elemental, elementary, evanescent, failing, fetal,
     formative, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic,
     germinal, germinant, germinational, germinative, germiparous,
     gestatory, granular, hypoplastic, immature, impalpable,
     imperceptible, imponderable, in arrear, in arrears, in default,
     in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in short supply, in the bud,
     in the rough, inadequate, inappreciable, inaugural, inceptive,
     inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incomplete, incunabular,
     indiscernible, infant, infantile, infinitesimal, initial,
     initiative, initiatory, intangible, introductory, inventive,
     invisible, lacking, larval, microcosmic, microscopic, missing,
     molecular, nascent, natal, needing, original, oversimple, part,
     partial, parturient, patchy, postnatal, pregnant, prenatal, primal,
     primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primordial,
     pristine, procreative, protogenic, radical, reductionistic,
     reductive, rough, roughcast, roughhewn, rude, rudimental,
     rudimentary, scant, scanty, scrappy, seminal, short, shy,
     simplistic, sketchy, stunted, subatomic, tenuous, thin,
     ultramicroscopic, unblown, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut,
     underdeveloped, undeveloped, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed,
     unhewn, unlabored, unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined,
     unseeable, untreated, unworked, unwrought, ur, wanting