Crossword clues for embryos
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embryo \Em"bry*o\, n.; pl. Embryos. [F. embryon, Gr. 'e`mbryon, perh. fr. ? in (akin to L. ? E. in) + ? to be full of, swell with; perh. akin to E. brew.] (Biol.) The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant; as:
The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus).
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The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination.
In embryo, in an incipient or undeveloped state; in conception, but not yet executed. ``The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo.''
--Swift.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of embryo English)
Usage examples of "embryos".
In particular, the restriction against genetic modification of human embryos was devised to hold the league together in the face of opposition from Muslim, Catholic, and other "respectfor-life" nations, and as quid pro quo for accepting the restrictions on family size.
Of course, many doctors can destroy the embryos and tell you whether they would have had your talents and your curse.
Back when he created Bean, Volescu had simply introduced the planter virus that was supposed to alter all the cells of the embryos, and then waited to see if any embryos lived, and which of the survivors had been successfully altered.
Take their leftover embryos, and instead of discarding the ones with Anton's Key, he'd keep them all and raise them and study them.
During the days before the embryos were ready for implantation, while Volescu was no doubt trying frantically to devise some nondestructive procedure that he could pretend was a genetic test, Petra was glad not to have to stay in the hospital personally watching over the embryos the whole time.
For all she knew, the containers he flushed had never contained embryos at all.
Why would Volescu sacrifice any of them, when all he had to do was lie and merely say that these three had contained embryos with Anton's Key?
I'm perfectly aware that you intend to keep all the embryos and implant them one by one until you have as many of my children as possible.
And if Volescu was in on it, then the embryos that were stolen probably had Anton's Key after all.
Volescu probably had no idea which of the embryos had Anton's Key and which didn't.
There might be eight embryos unaccounted for but probably not, probably only the five they knew about.
Delphiki, we are not a good place for someone to bring stolen embryos to try to sell them.
What good would it do those embryos if their parents walked into a trap and died?
Or will he let me win, maybe even let me kill him, only the joke's on me because the embryos he gives me aren't ours, they're from the tragic mating of two really dumb people.
If it turns out to have been embryos after all, well, that's my own mistake, and I'll explain it to my wife.