cellule
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cellule
First recorded in 1645–55, cellule is from the Latin word cellula small room. See cell, -ule
Example Sentences
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Une fois enfin elle prit si bien son temps qu'elle les rencontra qui alloient à l'église, mais dès qu'ils la virent ils s'en retournèrent en haste dans leur cellule et fermèrent la porte sur eux.
From Project Gutenberg
Cytoblast, sī′to-blast, n. the nucleus or germinal spot of a cellule, from which the organic cell is developed.—n.
From Project Gutenberg
At the present time there is published there a very well and favorably known biological journal, La Cellule, through which many important contributions from the professors and students of the university find their way before the public.
From Project Gutenberg
One of its cells felicitously took his name: Cellule Interentreprise du Parti Communiste Français Pablo Picasso.
From The Guardian
Every factory in France has for several years past turned into what is called a cellule of some sort of Communist organization about which few people know anything.
From Time Magazine Archive
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