embryonic

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛm.bɹi.ɒn.ɪk/

Adjective

embryonic (comparative more embryonic, superlative most embryonic)

1. (embryology) Of or relating to an embryo.
2. (figuratively) Of a project, etc: very new and still evolving; yet to reach its full potential.

Synonyms

• embryonal (much less common)

Derived terms

• abembryonic
• anembryonic
• embryonical
• embryonically
• embryoniclike
• extraembryonic
• intraembryonic
• maternoembryonic
• monembryonic
• nonembryonic
• polyembryonic
• postembryonic
• typembryonic

 

Translations

embryology: of or relating to an embryo

• Catalan: embrionari
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胚胎的 (zh) (pēitāi de)

• Czech: zárodečný (cs) m, embryonální (cs)
• Dutch: embryonaal (nl)
• French: embryonnaire (fr)
• German: embryonal (de), (quasi prefix) Embryonal-
• Greek: εμβρυϊκός (el) m (emvryïkós)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: embrionális (hu)
• Italian: embrionario, embrionico, embrionale (it)
• Portuguese: embrionário (pt), embriónico
• Russian: эмбриона́льный (ru) (embrionálʹnyj), заро́дышевый (ru) (zaródyševyj)
• Spanish: embrionario
• Swedish: embryonal (sv)
• Volapük: brüomik

figuratively: something, especially a project, that is very new and is still evolving

• Czech: zárodečný (cs) m, embryonální (cs)
• French: embryonnaire (fr)
• Greek: εμβρυϊκός (el) m (emvryïkós)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: заро́дышевый (ru) (zaródyševyj)
• Spanish: embrionario

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Interlingua

Adjective

embryonic (not comparable)

1. embryonic, embryonal

Related terms

• embryo
• embryonal