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embryo
embryo is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant
- 2noun
The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (See Fetus).
- 3noun
The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination.
- 4adjective
Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.
- 5noun
an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
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- 6noun
(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
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