The biological process of embryonic development; the formation and growth of an embryo.
From embryon plus the abstract noun suffix -y, creating a term for the process itself. Rare but used in technical biological contexts.
Understanding embryony—how a single cell becomes a 200-billion-celled human—is one of biology's greatest unsolved mysteries, still full of surprises.
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