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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Embryonic \Em'bry*on"ic\, adjective (Biol.) Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.
{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}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
embryonic
adjective
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
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