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polyembryos

polyembryos is the plural of polyembryo.

Meaning of polyembryo

Noun

polyembryo (plural polyembryos)

  1. A single seed that contains multiple embryos.
    • But sour and swee oranges have a number of characters in common -- small-panicled inflorescences, tight peel, whitish polyembryo, etc.1932, Taihoku Teikoku Daigaku. Ri-nogakubu, Memoirs, page 68
  2. One of a set of genetically identical embryos that develop from a single fertilized egg.
    • Mitochondria, like the phospholipids, have been investigated when the polyembryo of Ageniaspis had the form of a tube (string).1964, Kazimierz Sembrat, Zoologica Poloniae: Archivum Societatis Zoologorum Poloniae, page 264

Questions about polyembryos

What is polyembryos the plural of?
Polyembryos is the plural of polyembryo.

Words near polyembryos in the dictionary

  1. polyembryonate
  2. polyembryonic
  3. polyembryonically
  4. polyembryonous
  5. polyembryony
  6. polyembryos
  7. polyemia
  8. polyemic
  9. polyendocrine
  10. polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome
  11. polyendocrinopathies

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