conceptus

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun 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

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

A cognition is either an intuition or a conception (intuitus vel conceptus). — The Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
Hinc patet, qui fiat, ut cum irrepraesentabile et impossibile vulgo ejusdem significatus habeantur, conceptus tam continui, quam infiniti, a plurimis rejiciantur, quippe quorum, secundum leges cognitionis intuitivae, repraesentatio est impossibilis. — Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

embryo, fertilized egg

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