Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“embryos” is a form of

embryo

UK /ˈɛmbɹi.əʊ/ · US /ˈɛmbɹi.oʊ/ noun

Forms embryos embryones embrio embrio’s embrioes embrioun embrion embryon embrions embryons embrya

  1. noun In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
  2. noun An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
  3. noun In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.
  4. noun In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.
  5. noun (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
  6. noun (figurative) The beginning; the first stage of anything.

Synonyms

conceptus fertilized egg

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryō, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “to grow, swell”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant; as: (a) The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus).
  2. adjective Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.

Etymology [F. embryon, Gr. in) + brew.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “embryo”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “embryo” (best matches first).

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