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

Definitions

1. noun. The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant
2. noun. The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus).
3. noun. The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination.
4. adjective. Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.
5. noun. 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

   Synonyms: conceptus

6. noun. (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

Synonyms

conceptus

Common word forms

embryos

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