Crossword-Solution: EMBRYO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Embryo | n. | The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant |
| Embryo | n. | The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus). |
| Embryo | n. | The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination. |
| Embryo | a. | Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
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Sentences with EMBRYO (5)
The very first thing which she had noticed in her life, was—what?—not the mother’s smile, responding to it, as other babies do, by that faint, embryo smile of the little mouth, remembered so doubtfully afterwards, and with such fond discussion whether it were indeed a smile.
Neither expected Scott to quickly evolve into a innovative journalist on the offensive who had the embryo of a cult following.
And we grant all this, accompanying the permission with strict orders to prevent any embryo which may come into being from seeing the light; and if any force a way to the birth, the parents must understand that the offspring of such an union cannot be maintained, and arrange accordingly.
Naturalists tell us that a full grown man is a resultant or representative of all animated nature on this globe; beginning with the early embryo state, then representing the lowest forms of organic life, 4 and passing through every subordinate grade or type, until he reaches the last and highest—manhood.
But the letters remain as a valuable and interesting record of one of Tolstoy’s rare friendships with women, revealing in his unguarded confidences fine shades of his many-sided nature, and throwing light on the impression he made both on his intimates and on those to whom he was only known as a writer, while his moral philosophy was yet in embryo.
Quotes with EMBRYO (3)
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man — state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world... Religi…
... so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty.
It is recorded in the monastic rules that a monk once performed an abortion on a girl; the Buddha judged his action seriously wrong, which incurred him the highest offense in the monastic rule. A monk committing this kind of wrongful deed must be expelled from the monastic community. The Buddha considered the embryo to be a person like an adult, so the monk who killed the embryo through abortion was judged by Buddhist monastic rules as having committed a crime equal in gravit…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 62 times in crossword archives (1990–2024).