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Definition
an organism in the early stages of growth prior to birth, hatching, or sprouting; in humans the first eight weeks of development (prior to the fetal stage)
- We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos.Book 1 — Miss Brooke (67% in)
- Doubtless a vigorous error vigorously pursued has kept the embryos of truth a-breathing: the quest of gold being at the same time a questioning of substances, the body of chemistry is prepared for its soul, and Lavoisier is born.Book 5 — The Dead Hand (47% in)
There are no more uses of "embryo" in Middlemarch.
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