germ cell


nounBiology.
  1. the sexual reproductive cell at any stage from the primordial cell to the mature gamete.

Origin of germ cell

1
First recorded in 1850–55

Words Nearby germ cell

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How to use germ cell in a sentence

  • Again, the function of this mesothelium apart from the germ-cell is essentially excretory and phagocytic.

    The Origin of Vertebrates | Walter Holbrook Gaskell

British Dictionary definitions for germ cell

germ cell

noun
  1. a sexual reproductive cell; gamete: Compare somatic cell

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Scientific definitions for germ cell

germ cell

  1. One of the diploid cells in the reproductive organs of a multicellular organism that undergo division and are the precursors of haploid gametes, such as a spermatogonium or oogonium.

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