[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