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Pseudembryo :: Pseudembryo (n.) A false embryo.

Dicyemata :: Dicyemata (n. pl.) An order of worms parasitic in cephalopods. They are remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. The embryo exists in two forms.

Proembryo :: Proembryo (n.) The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses..

Embryology :: Embryology (n.) The science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual development of the ovum until it reaches the adult stage.

Campylotropous :: Campylotropous (a.) Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together..

Amniota :: Amniota (n. pl.) That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals..

Conceive :: Conceive (v. t.) To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

Diphygenic :: Diphygenic (a.) Having two modes of embryonic development.

Embryotic :: Embryotic (a.) Embryonic.

Conception :: Conception (n.) The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

Embryogony :: Embryogony (n.) The formation of an embryo.

Neurula :: Neurula (n.) An embryo or certain invertebrates in the stage when the primitive band is first developed.

Planula :: Planula (n.) In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula..

Homogeny :: Homogeny (n.) The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence

Gastrulation :: Gastrulation (n.) The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed..

Polyembryony :: Polyembryony (n.) The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac..

Protocercal :: Protocercal (a.) Having a caudal fin extending around the end of the vertebral column, like that which is first formed in the embryo of fishes; diphycercal..

Nasofrontal :: Nasofrontal (a.) Of or pertaining to the nose and the front of the head; as, the embryonic nasofrontal process which forms the anterior boundary of the mouth..

Gonochorism :: Gonochorism (n.) In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs..

Planticle :: Planticle (n.) A young plant, or plant in embryo..

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