em·bry·o
noun/ˈembriəʊ/
/ˈembriəʊ/
(plural embryos)
Idioms - a young animal or plant in the very early stages of development before birth, or before coming out of its egg or seed, especially a human egg in the first eight weeks after fertilization
胚；胚胎；（尤指受孕后八周内的）人类胚胎 - the current debate over cloning human embryos
当前关于克隆人类胚胎的辩论
Extra ExamplesTopics Biologyc1- The couple has produced three embryos for implantation.
这对夫妻培育了三个胚胎以供移植。 - Two or three embryos are implanted into the woman's body.
这个妇人体内已经移植了两三个胚胎。 - frozen embryos stored at a fertility clinic
保存在生育诊所的冷冻胚胎 - the cells of an early embryo
早期胚胎细胞
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- developing
- fertilized
- early
- …
- create
- produce
- implant
- …
- develop
- development
- growth
- cell
- …
- the current debate over cloning human embryos
- a thing at a very early stage of development
初期形态；萌芽；雏形 - the embryo of an idea
一种想法的雏形 - an embryo central bank
中央银行的雏形
- the embryo of an idea
Word Originlate Middle English: via late Latin from Greek embruon ‘fetus’, from em- ‘into’ + bruein ‘swell, grow’.
Idioms
in embryo
- existing but not yet fully developed
在胚胎阶段；在萌芽时期；尚未成熟 - The idea already existed in embryo in his earlier novels.
这个想法在他早期的小说中已初见端倪。
- The idea already existed in embryo in his earlier novels.