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Is embryo a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word embryo is a Scrabble US word. The word embryo is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is embryo a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word embryo is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

EMBRYO,

5-letter words (5 found)

BROME,MOBEY,OMBER,OMBRE,YBORE,

4-letter words (16 found)

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3-letter words (25 found)

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2-letter words (16 found)

BE,BO,BY,EM,ER,ME,MO,MY,OB,OE,OM,OR,OY,RE,YE,YO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of embryo

embryo

Alternative forms

  • (after the Medieval Latin embryo) embrio [Middle English to the 18th century], embryo [17th century to the present] (singular forms); embryones [17th century to the present], embrio’s [17th–18th centuries], embrioes [17th century], embryos [19th century to the present] (plural forms)
  • (after the stem (embryōn-) of the Medieval Latin embryo) embrioun [Middle English], embrion [Middle English to the 18th century], embryon [17th–19th centuries] (singular forms); embrions [17th C.], embryons [17th–19th centuries] (plural forms)
  • (after the Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon)) embryon [17th century to the present] (singular form); embryons [17th century to the present], embrya [18th century to the present] (plural forms)

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryō, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “I grow, swell”). Possibly related to Hebrew עֻבָּר (“fetus, embryo”) ('ʊbar).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛmbɹi.əʊ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛmbɹi.oʊ/
  • Hyphenation: em‧bryo

Noun

embryo (plural embryos or embryones)

  1. In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
  2. An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
  3. In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
  4. In humans, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy
  5. (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
  6. (figurative) The beginning; the first stage of anything.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • fetus, foetus
  • zygote

Translations

Further reading

  • embryo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Morbey, merboy

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛmbrɪjo]

Noun

embryo n

  1. embryo
    Synonym: zárodek

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

Further reading

  • embryo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • embryo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • embryo in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛm.bri.oː/
  • Hyphenation: em‧bryo

Noun

embryo n (plural embryo's, diminutive embryootje n)

  1. embryo

Derived terms

  • embryogenese
  • embryologie
  • embryologisch
  • embryoloog
  • embryonaal
  • embryoselectie
  • embryotransplantatie

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: embrio

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English embryo), ultimately from Medieval Latin embryō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈembryo/, [ˈe̞mbryo̞]
  • Rhymes: -embryo
  • Syllabification(key): emb‧ry‧o

Noun

embryo (rare)

  1. embryo

Declension

Synonyms

  • alkio

Further reading

  • “embryo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Interlingua

Noun

embryo (plural embryos)

  1. embryo

Related terms

  • embryonal

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).

Noun

embryo n (definite singular embryoet, indefinite plural embryo or embryoer, definite plural embryoa or embryoene)

  1. (biology, botany) an embryo

Related terms

  • foster

References

  • “embryo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).

Noun

embryo n (definite singular embryoet, indefinite plural embryo, definite plural embryoa)

  1. (biology, botany) an embryo

Related terms

  • foster

References

  • “embryo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

embryo n

  1. embryo; an unborn baby that is less developed than a fetus.
  2. embryo; an organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.

Declension


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