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PROEMBRYO

Definition: PROEMBRYO

PROEMBRYO

Noun

1. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.

2. The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonym: PROEMBRYO

Synonym by domain: four cell proembryo (biology & biotechnology, medicine).

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Usage Frequency: PROEMBRYO

"PROEMBRYO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PROEMBRYO" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Rhyming with "PROEMBRYO"

Words rhyming with "PROEMBRYO" (pronounced 'Pro*em"bry*o'): Pseudembryo. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PROEMBRYO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-m-o-o-p-r-r-y"

-2 letters: preboom.

-3 letters: boomer, broomy, embryo, mopery, poorer, prober, romper, roomer, ropery.

-4 letters: berry, boomy, borer, brome, bromo, broom, merry, moory, moper, mopey, morro, myope, omber, ombre, ormer, perry, probe, proem, promo, pryer, rebop, repro, romeo, roomy, roper, ropey.

-5 letters: berm, boom, boor, bore, boyo, broo, byre, moor, mope, mopy, more, obey, oboe, omer, orby.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PROEMBRYO


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 52 4F 45 4D 42 52 59 4F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010010 01001111 01000101 01001101 01000010 01010010 01011001 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 004F 0045 004D 0042 0052 0059 004F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

505249394736525949

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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