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Embryo Sac :: Embryo sac () See under Embryonic.

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

Neuropore :: Neuropore (n.) An opening at either end of the embryonic neural canal.

Monembryony :: Monembryony (n.) The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo.

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

Otocyst :: Otocyst (n.) An auditory cyst or vesicle; one of the simple auditory organs of many invertebrates, containing a fluid and otoliths; also, the embryonic vesicle from which the parts of the internal ear of vertebrates are developed..

Embryonated :: Embryonated (a.) In the state of, or having, an embryonal..

Embryoniferous :: Embryoniferous (a.) Having an embryo.

Oospere :: Oospere (n.) An analogous mass of protoplasm in the ovule of a flowering plant; an embryonic vesicle.

Embryous :: Embryous (a.) Embryonic; undeveloped.

Gastrula :: Gastrula (n.) An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea..

Inembryonate :: Inembryonate (a.) Not embryonate.

Myotome :: Myotome (n.) One of the embryonic muscular segments arising from the protovertebrae; also, one of the protovertebrae themselves..

Embryotic :: Embryotic (a.) Embryonic.

Embryon :: Embryon (n. & a.) See Embryo.

Chromoblast :: Chromoblast (n.) An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.

Myoepithelial :: Myoepithelial (a.) Derived from epithelial cells and destined to become a part of the muscular system; -- applied to structural elements in certain embryonic forms.

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..

Embryoniform :: Embryoniform (a.) Like an embryo in form.

Quintine :: Quintine (n.) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine..

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