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Synonyms for egg cell

Grammar : Noun

Définition of egg cell

As in ovum : noun female reproductive cell

Example sentences :

The egg cell from the white parent carries the factor for white, the pollen cell from the red parent carries the factor for red.
Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan

There is a large nucleus, but it is not always readily distinguished from the other contents of the egg cell.
Extract from : « Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany » by Douglas Houghton Campbell

The egg cell is very large, and appears of a yellowish color, and filled with large drops that give it a peculiar aspect.
Extract from : « Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany » by Douglas Houghton Campbell

Of the three cells of the “egg apparatus” the lower (o) one is the egg cell; the others are called “synergidæ.”
Extract from : « Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany » by Douglas Houghton Campbell

One of the nuclei, with the protoplasm immediately surrounding it, is called the egg cell.
Extract from : « A Civic Biology » by George William Hunter

Every egg cell has some, and every egg that grows to maturity is infected with the plant spores.
Extract from : « Planet of the Damned » by Harry Harrison

In 1844 Koelliker discovered that the egg cell, by division and multiplication, becomes an aggregation—a heap of new cells.
Extract from : « The Last Link » by Ernst Haeckel

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