embryo

noun/ˈɛmbriˌoʊ/

Frequency rank: #9,146 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

an organism in the earliest stages of development, before birth or hatching.

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Example sentence

Scientists are studying the development of the embryo in the early stages of pregnancy.

Synonyms & related words

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