cytula
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos, “hollow vessel”).
Noun[edit]
cytula (plural cytulas)
- (biology) The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, whose development produces the child or other organism.
- 1874, Ernst Haeckel, The Evolution of Man:
- It is only after fertilization is accomplished that a new cell-kernel arises in this cytod, which thus becomes the parent-cell (Cytula )
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References[edit]
- “cytula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.