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Embryo

The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant

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Animal 76% connected

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity…

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Beast 76% connected

Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Brute 76% connected

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Creature 76% connected

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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Fauna 76% connected

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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Flora 76% connected

The goddess of flowers and spring.

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Plant 76% connected

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Blastosphere 76% connected

The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.

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Blastula 76% connected

That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.

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Gastrula 76% connected

An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giv…

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Morula 76% connected

The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also m…

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Umbilical 70% connected

Of or pertaining to an umbilicus, or umbilical cord; umbilic.

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