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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ovum or a sperm cell or one of its developmental precursors.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A germ when it is a cell, or has the morphological value of a cell; an impregnated ovum about to germinate, but not yet become more than a single cell; a cytula.
- noun One of the similar cells of a germinating organism; a cell resulting from segmentation of the vitellus; a blastomere.
- noun In biology, a reproductive cell; an ovum or spermatozoön: opposed to body cell, or somatic cell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Biol.) A cell, of either sex, directly concerned in the production of a new organism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cytology A cell that is part of the germ line: a
gametocyte , anovum or asperm cell .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a spermatozoon or an ovum; a cell responsible for transmitting DNA to the next generation
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