created sense approved 胚形成 · pēixíngchéng · embryogeny — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
胚形成
pēixíngchéng
embryogeny
The process of a fertilized egg developing into an embryo; in plants, this refers to the formation of the cotyledon, shoot, and root within a seed, while in animals it involves a series of cell divisions and specialization.
胚 (literal) → 胚 · pēi · embryo 形成 (literal) → 形成 · xíngchéng · to form
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition