embryonic

embryonic
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • embryonic — index inchoate, incipient, initial, original (initial), premature, prime (original), rudimentary …   Law dictionary

  • embryonic — 1849, from Medical L. embryonem (see EMBRYO (Cf. embryo)) + IC (Cf. ic). Figurative use is from 1856 …   Etymology dictionary

  • embryonic — [adj] rudimentary beginning, developing, early, elementary, evolving, germinal, immature, incipient, undeveloped; concepts 485,578,797 …   New thesaurus

  • embryonic — ► ADJECTIVE 1) relating to an embryo. 2) in or at a rudimentary stage …   English terms dictionary

  • embryonic — [em′brē ə nəlem΄brē än′ik] adj. 1. of or like an embryo: also embryonal [em′brē ə nəl] 2. in an early stage; undeveloped; rudimentary …   English World dictionary

  • embryonic — [[t]e̱mbriɒ̱nɪk[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n An embryonic process, idea, organization, or organism is one at a very early stage in its development. [FORMAL] ...Romania s embryonic democracy. ...the embryonic European central bank. ...embryonic… …   English dictionary

  • embryonic — em|bry|on|ic [ˌembriˈɔnık US ˈa:n ] adj 1.) at a very early stage of development ▪ The plans are still only in embryonic form. 2.) relating to an ↑embryo ▪ embryonic development ▪ embryonic cells …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • embryonic — adjective 1. of an organism prior to birth or hatching in the embryonic stage embryologic development • Syn: ↑embryologic, ↑embryonal • Similar to: ↑immature • Derivationally related fo …   Useful english dictionary

  • embryonic — adjective 1) an embryonic chick Syn: fetal, unborn, unhatched; in utero 2) an embryonic prodemocracy movement Syn: rudimentary, undeveloped, unformed, immature, incomplete, incipient, inchoate; …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • embryonic — adjective Date: circa 1841 1. of or relating to an embryo 2. being in an early stage of development ; incipient, rudimentary < an embryonic plan > • embryonically adverb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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