a. Obs. rare. [f. EMBRY-ON sb. + -OUS.] Of or pertaining to an embryo; in germ; undeveloped. In quot. fig.
1677. Feltham, Resolves, I. xiv. (ed. 10), 23. Without the last [action], the first [contemplation] is but abortive and embryous.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Embryous, pertaining to an embryon.
1692. in Coles.
1847. in Craig; and in mod. Dicts.
