Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to embryogeny.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Biol.) Pertaining to the development of an embryo.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to embryogenesis

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Examples

  • ID accepts evolution as an embryogenic function to aid in species survival.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Every moment, right before our eyes, nature arrives at identical results, in sometimes neighboring species, by entirely different embryogenic processes.

    Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

  • But, henceforth, one fact is indisputable, namely, that we have before our eyes the general embryogenic record of human development from primitive communism to those complex formations as at Athens or at Rome with their constitutions of citizens arranged in classes according to census which not long ago constituted the columns of Hercules for research into written tradition.

    Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History 1896

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