embryon

From Medieval Latin embryon, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “newborn animal, embryo”).

embryon (plural embryons)

1. Archaic form of embryo.

embryon (comparative more embryon, superlative most embryon)

1. (now rare) Embryonic. [from 17th c.]
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     [F]our Champions fierce / Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring / Thir embryon Atoms […] .

embryon

1. genitive singular of embryo

From Middle French embrion, from a Medieval Latin corruption of Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “I grow, swell”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ̃/

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• Homophone: embryons
• Hyphenation: em‧bry‧on

embryon m (plural embryons)

1. (biology) embryo
2. (botany) embryo
3. embryo (the beginning, the first stage)

• embryogenèse
• embryonnaire

• “embryon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

embryon

1. indefinite plural of embryo.