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  • 101em|bry|o|ma — «EHM bree OH uh», noun, plural mas, ma|ta « muh tuh». a tumor composed of fetal tissues …

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  • 102em|bry|o|nal — «EHM bree uh nuhl», adjective. = embryonic. (Cf. ↑embryonic) …

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  • 103em|bry|o|nat|ed — «EHM bree uh NAY tihd», adjective. (of an egg) containing an embryo: »Dr. Harold Cox has succeeded in making at least one of the three polio viruses adapt itself to growth on embryonated hen s eggs (Science News Letter) …

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  • 104em|bry|on|i|cal|ly — «EHM bree ON uh klee», adverb. in an embryonic manner: »Figurative. This at a time when the internal combustion engine, aviation, synthetic chemistry, all brought to a high degree of development under capitalism, existed only embryonically or not …

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  • 105em|bry|on|ic — «EHM bree ON ihk», adjective. 1. of the embryo: »an embryonic study. It now has human embryos from the earliest stage of development to the end of the embryonic period (Science). 2. Figurative. not mature; undeveloped: »an embryonic leaf, an… …

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  • 106em|bry|on — «EHM bree on», noun. = embryo. (Cf. ↑embryo) ╂[< Greek émbryon; see etym. under embryo (Cf. ↑embryo)] …

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  • 107em|bry|o|phyte — «EHM bree uh fyt», noun. any one of a group of plants that develop embryos: »Mosses, ferns, and flowering plants are embryophytes …

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  • 108Fa|bry's disease — «FAH breez», an enzyme deficiency genetically linked to the female chromosome and passed by women to their male offspring: »A hereditary disorder attacking the heart, kidneys and central nervous system, Fabry s disease usually kills its victims… …

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  • 109Fa|bry-Pe|rot — «fah BREE pay R», adjective. of or having to do with a type of interferometer developed by Charles Fabry, 1867 1945, and A. Pérot, 1863 1925, French physicists …

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  • 110pol|y|em|bry|o|ny — «POL ee EHM bree OH nee, bree uh », noun. Botany. the formation or presence of more than one embryo in a seed. ╂[< poly + Greek émbryon embryo + English y3] …

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