embryony

English

Etymology

embryo +‎ -y

Noun

embryony (countable and uncountable, plural embryonies)

1. (biology) The formation of an embryo; embryogenesis.
   • 1992 March, A. Kojima, Y. Nagato, “Pseudogamous embryogenesis and the degree of parthenogenesis in Allium tuberosum”, in Sexual Plant Reproduction, volume 5, number 1:

     Whether flowers were pollinated or not, autonomous egg and antipodal embryonies occurred at nearly equal frequencies and progressed almost synchronously for several days.

   • 2007, Iqrar A. Khan, Citrus Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, →ISBN, page 142:

     Nucellar embryony allows citrus rootstock breeders to produce F1 hybrids that are highly heterozygous, but produce seedlings that are genetically uniform and identical to the mother tree.

   • 2009, T B Batygina, Embryology of Flowering Plants:

     Besides, according to the logic of Nogler's reasoning, the phenomenon of monozygotic cleavage embryony (formation of twins, triplets and so on), as well as of integumental embryony should be included in apomixis.

   • 2012, N.M. Durham, C.C. Plato, Trends in Dermatoglyphic Research, →ISBN, page 125:

     Since dermatoglyphic traits are also set in early embryony it was considered logical to look for dermatoglyphic deviations which may have occurred as a result of the rubella infection.