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The science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual development of the ovum until it reaches the adult stage.

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.

Embryonic; undeveloped. [R.]

To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity. "Thetis . . . emerging from the deep." Dryden. Those who h…

The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance. The white color of all refracted light, at its very first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.…

Allopathy; -- a term used by followers of Hahnemann, or homeopathists.

To envelop in clouds; to cloud. [R.] Spenser.

Growing or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone.

Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.

The portion of each apodeme developed from the interepimeral membrane in certain crustaceans.

The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.

To envelop; to inwrap; to involve. [Obs.] Spenser.

To place in a sphere; to envelop. His ample shoulders in a cloud ensphered. Chapman.

To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. Shak.

rge number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera.

The inner granular layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.

English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.

To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.

To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop. Dwelling in a pleasant glade, With mountains round about environed. Spenser. Environed he was with many foes. Shak. Environ me with darkness whilst I write. Donne.

ces, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. It is no friendly environment, this of thine. Carlyle.