A substance or tissue that provides nutrition to an embryo during development.
From embryo + Greek trophe, 'nourishment.' This embryology term describes the nutritive environment an embryo creates or receives.
Embryotroph is essentially the 'food supply' for developing babies—in mammals it comes from the placenta, but in birds and reptiles it comes from stored yolk, and plants use stored nutrients in seeds.
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