Plural of embryo
regular plural
The plural of embryo is embryos or embryones.
Forms of embryo
| Singular | embryo /ˈɛmbɹi.əʊ/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | embryos embryones |
| Countable | countable |
Embryos and embryones in a sentence
- SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.2015 August 18, Clelia De-la-Peña et al., “The role of chromatin modifications in somatic embryogenesis in plants”, in Frontiers in Plant...
- In situ hybridisations were performed on devitellinised embryos still wrapped around the yolk and on embryos with the yolk dissected away.2015 December 4, “Divergent RNA Localisation Patterns of Maternal Genes Regulating Embryonic Patterning in the Butterfly Pararge aegeria”...
- Egg candling uses backlight to look for chick embryos.From the entry backlight
- At first, Bi and Valdeiglesias considered implanting two embryos at once to have twins.2025 September 3, Emi Nietfeld, Wired, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2025. From the entry twibling
- In this study, wild glass eel, leptocephali, preleptocephali, and embryos were collected to conduct RNA-seq.2015 September 26, “De Novo Assembly of the Whole Transcriptome of the Wild Embryo, Preleptocephalus, Leptocephalus, and Glass Eel of…. From the entry preleptocephali
Meaning of embryo
- noun In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
- noun An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
- noun In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.
Questions about the plural of embryo
- What is the plural of embryo?
- The plural of embryo is embryos or embryones.
- Which is correct, embryos or embryones?
- Both are used. embryos is the more common of the two in English writing.
- Is embryo countable?
- Embryo is a countable noun.
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