Definition of "embryonic" []

• Of, relating to, or being an embryo. (adjective)
• Rudimentary; incipient: an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing. (adjective)

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• ""The term embryonic stem cell research has been greatly politicized, but it involves this process: the creation of a human embryo-often by cloning-followed by the destruction of that embryo to obtain stem cells, which are then reproduced to create a stem cell line," says Angela Martin, the director of the group."
• "The need for ova in embryonic stem cell research has given rise to a new form of exploitation of women."
• "I have paddocks of horses in embryonic form for our Eden colony."