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Adjective: embryonic  `em-bree'ó-nik
  1. Of an organism prior to birth or hatching
    "in the embryonic stage"
    - embryologic, embryonal
     
  2. In an early stage of development
    "the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"
    - embryotic

See also: early, embryo, embryology, immature

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