Word: embryo

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Synonyms: embryo

waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels

Translations: embryo

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spanish
Translations:
feto, embrión
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german
Translations:
embryo
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french
Translations:
embryon, embryonnaire, germe
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italian
Translations:
embrione
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portuguese
Translations:
embriões
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dutch
Translations:
embryo
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russian
Translations:
эмбрион, зачаток, зародыш
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norwegian
Translations:
foster
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finnish
Translations:
itu, alkio, sikiö
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danish
Translations:
foster, embryo
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czech
Translations:
embryo, zárodek
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polish
Translations:
zarodek, zalążek, embrion
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hungarian
Translations:
embrió
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greek
Translations:
έμβρυο
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ukrainian
Translations:
ембріон
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estonian
Translations:
loode, embrüonaalne, embrüo
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croatian
Translations:
embrion, začetak, embrio
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lithuanian
Translations:
embrionas
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romanian
Translations:
embrion
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slovenian
Translations:
zárodek
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slovak
Translations:
embryo

The meaning and "use of": embryo

noun
  • an unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development. - No one has yet converted a single blastomere from an eight-cell embryo into a stem cell line.
  • the part of a seed that develops into a plant, consisting (in the mature embryo of a higher plant) of a plumule, a radicle, and one or two cotyledons. - During the autocatalytic cycle of growth and reproduction of higher plants, the embryo in the seed grows, under suitable conditions, to form a plant with leaves and roots.
  • a thing at a rudimentary stage that shows potential for development. - a simple commodity economy is merely the embryo of a capitalist economy

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