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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Embryonic \Em`bry*on"ic\, a. (Biol.)
     Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.
  
     {Embryonic} {sac or vesicle} (Bot.), the vesicle within which
        the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called
        also {amnios sac}, and {embryonal sac}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  embryonic
       adj 1: of or relating to an embryo; "the embryonic membrane" [syn:
              {embryonal}]
       2: of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the embryonic
          stage"; "embryologic development" [syn: {embryologic}, {embryonal}]
       3: in an early stage of development; "the embryo government
          staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic
          nation, not yet self-governing" [syn: {embryotic}]

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