embryonic
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She sprang from Zeus’ skull fully formed; her embryonic development reduced to a male deity’s headache.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
Talbot noted that healthy embryonic development depends on stem cells forming all three primary cell types: endoderm, ectoderm and mesoderm.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Our critic noted that the works on view “give us Gothic architecture in its embryonic state, designs realized in graphic form just before their incarnation as solid matter.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
You can hear an embryonic version on YouTube, external, recorded in Seattle in 2005.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
In biology there is a principle of powerful if imperfect applicability called recapitulation: in our individual embryonic development we retrace the evolutionary history of the species.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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