pēi​xíng​chéng

embryogeny

  • created sense approved 胚形成 · pēi​xíng​chéng · embryogeny — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    胚形成

    pēi​xíng​chéng

    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 · xíng​chéng · to form

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense