[f. as prec. + -ATE2.]

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  † 1.  = EMBRYONATED. Obs.

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1669.  W. Simpson, Hydrol. Chym., 56. Maturated into metals, by the embryonate sulphurs.

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1675.  Evelyn, Terra (1776), 45. Salts embryonate or undigested and not specificate.

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  † 2.  = EMBRYONAL. Obs.

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1693.  J. Beaumont, On Burnet’s The. Earth, I. 52. Fishes … in an embrionate imperfect state.

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1731.  In Bailey, vol. II.

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  3.  ‘Having an embryo or germ’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).

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  Hence in Bot. Embryonate plants, plants that possess seeds.

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