a. [f. EMBRYO, after exotic, patriotic, etc.: cf. chaotic.]

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  1.  = EMBRYONIC 1.

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1835–6.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 786/1. The term of their embryotic development.

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1854.  H. Miller, Sch. & Schm., iv. (1866), 31. The crab … is less embryotic … than the more ancient lobster.

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  2.  fig. = EMBRYONIC 2.

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1761.  Sterne, Tr. Shandy (1802), IV. xix. 90. The book of embryotic evils.

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1785.  Burns, Vision, II. xi. To mark the embryotic trace Of rustic Bard.

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1864.  Kingsley, Rom. & Teut., 40. Intellect and virtue remain … embryotic.

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