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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. of an organism prior to birth or hatching;
- Example: "in the embryonic stage"
- Example: "embryologic development"
[syn: embryonic, embryologic, embryonal]

2. in an early stage of development;
- Example: "the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre"
- Example: "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"
[syn: embryonic, embryotic]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

embryonic adj 1: of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the embryonic stage"; "embryologic development" [syn: embryonic, embryologic, embryonal] 2: 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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