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Conceptus

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The fetus or embryo, including all the surrounding tissues protecting and nourishing it during pregnancy.
  2. 2
    an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life wordnet

Etymology

From Latin cōncipiō (“to take hold of, to receive”), from Latin capiō (“to capture”).

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