adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
development
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Each member of the family shows spatially and temporally restricted expression patterns during embryonic development .
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But important new phenomena have occurred, and embryonic developments which were only noted in that document have matured.
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Recursive branching is also a good metaphor for the embryonic development of plants and animals generally.
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Researchers hope to learn about embryonic development and feeding patterns from the tiny animals in the shuttle aquarium.
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Blood vessels normally grow during the menstrual cycle, embryonic development and wound healing.
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Take wound healing or embryonic development .
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The genes worked on behaviour, presumably by influencing the embryonic development of the nervous system.
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The simple branching rule for drawing trees, then, looks like a promising analogue for embryonic development .
form
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Firstly, any plans for the chapel complex are only in embryonic form .
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The Sunday Night Supper constituted a small part of the Georgetown set in embryonic form .
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Some sort of urban community was already there in embryonic form .
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Even the Symphony in Three Movements can be heard in embryonic form in the Concertino.
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Certainly one was emerging, and its embryonic form was increasingly dominated by London.
stage
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As a result, Haslam inherited what was then the plastic-film group, which was at an embryonic stage of development.
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Clearly, we are dealing with an industry that is very much in its embryonic stage .
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Impressive though this result is, the transplanted nucleus had come from an early embryonic stage .
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The rules and structures that will regulate and reward work at home and with diverse co-workers are in an embryonic stage .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her plan is still in the embryonic stage.
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Online gambling as an industry is still illegal and embryonic .
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The program is still in the embryonic stage, but we are confident of its success.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Later cultures of, usually embryonic , animal cells were used.
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Such embryonic creatures needed stronger muscles, too, and a skin that was resistant to drying out.
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Take wound healing or embryonic development.
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The rules and structures that will regulate and reward work at home and with diverse co-workers are in an embryonic stage.
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This report defines an embryonic synapse in Drosophila which is accessible to experimental analysis.
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We are, after all, always talking about minor quantitative changes in an existing embryonic process.
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We studied the healing of a standardized lesion on the dorsal surface of a four-day chick embryonic wing bud.
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While online commerce remains embryonic , personal service sites are popping up like dandelions.