Word Meanings - PROEMBRYO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.

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• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• EMBRYO SAC
  See EMBRYONIC
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• PROEMBRYO
  The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• EMBRYOTOMY
  The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• EMBRYON
  See EMBRYO
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• EMBRYOGRAPHY
  The general description of embryos.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• BIFORM
  Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
• VILLIFORM
  Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• FULL-FORMED
  Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.