conceptus vs animate being

conceptus and animate being both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
conceptus	Yes	No	No	No
animate being	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, animate being is a hypernym of conceptus; that is, animate being is a word with a broader meaning than conceptus:

conceptus: 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
animate being: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Other hypernyms of conceptus include animal, beast, brute, creature, fauna.

conceptus (noun)	animate being (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	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement