embryonic

English

Etymology

From New Latin embryonicus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) 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.
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     We are also to see the green-lighting of some much overdue reform of fares and ticketing, even if it's still embryonic and to be trialled on part or the network.

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

• Asturian: embrionariu
• Belarusian: эмбрыяна́льны (embryjanálʹny)
• Catalan: embrionari
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胚胎的 (zh) (pēitāi de)

• Czech: zárodečný (cs) m, embryonální (cs)
• Danish: embryonal
• Dutch: embryonaal (nl)
• Esperanto: embria
• French: embryonnaire (fr)
• Galician: embrionario
• German: embryonal (de), (quasi prefix) Embryonal-
• Greek: εμβρυϊκός (el) m (emvryïkós)
• Hungarian: embrionális (hu)
• Italian: embrionario, embrionico, embrionale (it)
• Latvian: embrionāls
• Polish: embrionalny (pl), zarodkowy (pl)
• Portuguese: embrionário (pt), embriónico
• Russian: эмбриона́льный (ru) (embrionálʹnyj), заро́дышевый (ru) (zaródyševyj)
• Spanish: embrionario (es)
• Swedish: embryonal (sv)
• Ukrainian: ембріона́льний (embrionálʹnyj), зародко́вий (zarodkóvyj)
• Volapük: brüomik

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

• Belarusian: эмбрыяна́льны (embryjanálʹny)
• Czech: zárodečný (cs) m, embryonální (cs)
• French: embryonnaire (fr)
• Greek: εμβρυϊκός (el) m (emvryïkós)
• Hungarian: embrionális (hu)
• Polish: zarodkowy (pl)
• Russian: заро́дышевый (ru) (zaródyševyj)
• Spanish: embrionario (es)
• Ukrainian: ембріона́льний (embrionálʹnyj), зародко́вий (zarodkóvyj)

Interlingua

Adjective

embryonic (not comparable)

1. embryonic, embryonal

Related terms

• embryo
• embryonal