'Embryonic' definitions:
Definition of 'embryonic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the embryonic stage"; "embryologic development" [syn: embryonic, embryologic, embryonal]
adjective
In an early stage of development; "the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing" [syn: embryonic, embryotic]
Definition of 'Embryonic'
From: GCIDE
- 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 embryonal sac. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'embryonic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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