embryo

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kasviaihe In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
puhekieltä A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
The beginning; the first stage of anything.
Jonathan Swift

The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo.

it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo ...