embryo
noun/ˈɛmbriˌoʊ/
Frequency rank: #9,146 most common English word
Meaning
an organism in the earliest stages of development, before birth or hatching.
Example sentence
Scientists are studying the development of embryo in the early stages of pregnancy.
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