egg cell

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Origin of egg cell

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First recorded in 1875–80

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How to use egg cell in a sentence

  • Each single one of these (in healthy men) is capable of fertilising a woman's egg-cell and giving rise to a new human being.

    Married Love | Marie Carmichael Stopes
  • When the pollen has been placed on this surface it grows, germinates, and part of it unites with the egg-cell of the young seed.

    The Romance of Plant Life | G. F. Scott Elliot
  • Then chromosomes of definite size and form, and corresponding in number to those present in the fertilised egg-cell, again appear.

  • The latter he regarded as arising directly from the egg-cell, and never from somatic cells.

  • Thirdly, the reproductive cells are derived from the egg-cell just in the same way as other tissue cells are derived from it.