ANLAGE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: anlagen   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development

Synonyms:

anlage; primordium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("anlage" is a kind of...):

organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

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