Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Embryonic \Em`bry*on"ic\, a. (Biol.)
Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.
{Embryonic} {sac or vesicle} (Bot.), the vesicle within which
the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called
also {amnios sac}, and {embryonal sac}.
Embryonic \Em`bry*on"ic\, a. (Biol.)
Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.
{Embryonic} {sac or vesicle} (Bot.), the vesicle within which
the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called
also {amnios sac}, and {embryonal sac}.
Source : WordNet®
embryonic
adj 1: of or relating to an embryo; "the embryonic membrane" [syn:
{embryonal}]
2: of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the embryonic
stage"; "embryologic development" [syn: {embryologic}, {embryonal}]
3: in an early stage of development; "the embryo government
staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic
nation, not yet self-governing" [syn: {embryotic}]