embryon

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adjective

Embryonic.

OriginMedieval Latin embryon ← Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον →
First used 17th c.Scrabble 14
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Meanings

nounembryon (plural embryons)

plural embryons

  1. archaicArchaic form of embryo.
adjectiveembryon (comparative more embryon, superlative most embryon)

comparative more embryon · superlative most embryon

  1. archaicEmbryonic.First known use 17th c.

    [F]our Champions fierce / Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring / Thir embryon Atoms […].

    1667, John Milton, “Book LVI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 898-900

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekἔμβρυον“newborn animal, embryo”
  2. Medieval Latinembryon
  3. Englishembryon

From Medieval Latin embryon, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “newborn animal, embryo”).

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APA

embryon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embryon

MLA

“embryon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embryon. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “embryon,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embryon.

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