unicellular

English

Adjective

unicellular (not comparable)

1. (biology) Describing any microorganism that has a single cell

Related terms

• multicellular

Translations

having a single cell

• Catalan: unicel·lular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 單細胞的 (cmn), 单细胞的 (cmn) (dānxìbāo de)

• Czech: jednobuněčný (cs)
• Dutch: ééncellig (nl)
• Finnish: yksisoluinen (fi)
• French: unicellulaire (fr) m and f
• Galician: unicelular (gl)
• German: einzellig (de)
• Greek: μονοκύτταρος (el) (monokýttaros)

• Irish: aoncheallach (ga)
• Italian: unicellulare (it)
• Japanese: 単細胞の (ja) (たんさいぼうの, tansaibō no)
• Manx: un-chillagagh (gv)
• Russian: одноклеточный (ru) (odnoklétočnyj), уницеллюлярный (ru) (unicelljuljárnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: једностаничан (sh)

  Roman: jednostaničan (sh)

• Spanish: unicelular (es) m and f

Noun

unicellular (plural unicellulars)

1. A single-celled organism; a unicell.
   • 1931, Ezra Bowen, An hypothesis of population growth‎

     Among unicellulars, the rate of increase is beyond belief.

   • 1986, Johan A J Metz, O Diekmann, The dynamics of physiologically structured populations‎

     In unicellulars the uncoupling of the various nutritional and energy sources is much more widely spread.

   • 2006, J Arthur Thomson, Heredity‎

     More or less distinct specialisation of reproductive elements in some unicellulars.

Translations

single-celled organism

• Dutch: ééncellige (nl) m
• German: Einzeller (de) m

• Welsh: ungellog (cy)