embryoとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryō, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “I grow, swell”). Possibly related to Hebrew עֻבָּר‎ (“fetus, embryo”) ('ʊbar).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmbɹi.əʊ/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmbɹi.oʊ/
  • ハイフネーション: em‧bryo

名詞

embryo (複数形 embryos または embryones)

1. In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
2. An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
3. In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
4. In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
5. (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
6. The beginning; the first stage of anything.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation:

     The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 419:

     it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo [...]

派生語

• embryology
• embryonic
• proembryo

関連する語

• fetus, foetus
• zygote

Further reading

• embryo on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Morbey, merboy

アナグラム

• merboy