What is the difference between embryo and egg?
embryo | egg |
In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
(botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
The beginning; the first stage of anything.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 419:
(zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.
(countable) The egg of a domestic fowl as an item of food.
(uncountable) The contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs as a culinary ingredient, etc.
(biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
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, title= Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.
A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.
(mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur), (potentially offensive) A person of Caucasian (Western) ancestry, who has a strong desire to learn about and immerse him- or herself in East Asian culture, and/or such a person who is perceived as behaving as if he or she were Asian (from the "white" outside and "yellow" inside).
(NZ, pejorative) A foolish or obnoxious person.
In terms such as good egg'', ''bad egg'', ''tough egg etc., a person, fellow.
To throw eggs at.
To dip in or coat with beaten egg (cooking).
To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
As nouns the difference between embryo and egg
is that embryo is in the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus while egg is an approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.As a verb egg is
to throw eggs at.embryo
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Alternative forms
* (plural forms) * (plural forms) * (plural forms)Noun
(en-noun)- The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo .
- it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo [...]
Derived terms
* embryology * embryonicExternal links
* ("embryo" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
* ----egg
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(wikipedia egg)Etymology 1
From (etyl) egge, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.}}
Verb
(en verb)- After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.