Former embryo Crossword Clue

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Former embryo Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

FORMER (adjective)
1. belonging to some prior time
2. belonging to the distant past
FORMER (noun)
1. the first of two or the first mentioned of two
EMBRYO (noun)
1. an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
2. (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

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