embryo, n. 1. germ, fetus; nucleus, egg, ovum; seed, seedling, sprout.
2. origin, genesis, incipience; square A, rudiments, beginnings; start, commencement, embryonic, adj. fetal, rudimentary, undeveloped; initial, beginning, incipient, primary, elementary, inchoate; immature, unfinished, developing, imperfect, emend, v. edit, revise, redact; correct, amend, alter; ameliorate, improve, polish, touch up; rewrite, reform; blue-pencil, clean up; delete, abridge, tighten; expurgate, cross out, scratch, slash, cut, kill, emendation, n. editing, redaction, revision, U.S. rewrite; alteration, correction, amelioration, improvement, polishing; deletion, abridgement, expurgation, emerald, n. 1. beryl, precious stone, gem, jewel. -adj. 2. green, kelly green, grass-green, verdant, viridescent, Heraldry, vert.
emerge, v. 1. come forth, emanate, issue, flow, stream forth, effuse; egress, discharge, emit, pour out, disembogue, come out; grow out of, proceed, ensue; originate, eventuate, derive from.
2. come up, arise, crop up, spring up, Inf. pop up; come, materialize, surface; reveal itself, show itself, present itself, Astron. emerse, come out of hiding; appear, become visible, rise, come into view or notice, uprise, come to light, come to the fore; peep out, peer out, fade in, stick one's head out.
3. commence, come into existence, begin, start, spring forth; open, set in, come to pass, come about, happen, occur; develop, grow, evolve, unfold. emergence, n. 1. emanation, issue, issuance, emission; egress, egression, outflow, outflowing, discharge, outpour, outpouring; efflux, effusion, effluence.
2. coming into view, rise, appearance, apparition, materialization, Astron. emersion; coming, advent, eventualization; disclosure, exposure, presentation, showing, unfolding; evolution, development, growth, emergency, n. exigency, crisis, urgency, juncture, conjuncture, extremity, pinch; accident, contingency; unforeseen circumstance, befalling; fix, mess, bind, Inf pickle, Inf. stew; All Inf. hole, clutch, crunch, tight squeeze; straits, pass, difficulty, hot water, trouble, rub; quandary, dilemma, perplexity; plight, predicament, impasse, cul-de-sac, imbroglio, corner, emigrant, n. 1. emigre, defector, political refugee, fugitive; displaced person, D.P.; expatriate, immigrant, colonist, foreigner, alien.
2. migrant, trekker, Derog. Okie; itinerant, peregri-nator, wanderer, vagrant, emigrate, v. 1. (usu. from one country to another) move, resettle, relocate; immigrate, expatriate oneself; migrate, trek; depart, leave, abandon, forsake, quit, renounce, repudiate, reject.
2. uproot, dispace, dispossess, drive out, force out. emigration, n. 1. (usu. from one country to another) moving, resettling, relocation; immigration, expatriation; migration, trekking; departure, withdrawal, exodus.
2. displacement, removal, dispossession, eminence, n. 1. repute, distinction, eminency, note, mark; standing, station, rank, position; fame, celebrity, report, figure; consequence, importance, significance, account; reputation, prestige, dignity, glory, honor, esteem.
2. loftiness, grandeur, majesty, exaltation, excellence, greatness, preeminence; sublimity, nobility, stateliness, imperialness, augustness, nobleness, splendor.
3. height, altitude, ceiling; loftiness, tallness, stature.
4. prominence, salience, projection, protrusion, extrusion; protuberance, tumescence, excrescence, nodu-lation; excurvation, swell, swelling, convexity, convexness.