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 LVI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 898-900:

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

embryon

1. genitive singular of embryo

Inherited from Middle French embrion, from Medieval Latin embryon, embrion, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “to 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