Definition of "embryo" in English

noun

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 a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.

4. In a human, 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.