- 1a 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 human embryos
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- 2(figurative) the embryo of an idea Idioms
existing but not yet fully developed The idea already existed in embryo in his earlier novels.
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