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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But he never knows what is the organization to which his Chef de cellule reports or which issues orders to the Chef.
From Time Magazine Archive
The head of the factory knows of the cellule in his own factory and he knows who is the Chef de cellule.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is nothing surprising in this; rather it is one of Nature's laws that may not be overlooked, traceable back to that first coalescence when the female cellule absorbs the male.
From The Truth About Woman by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
It is not more difficult to see in the living cellule a transformation of matter, and in man a transformation of the monkey, than to point out in a sponge the ancestor of the horse.
From The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism by Downton, Henry
Areole: Lepidoptera; see accessory cell, cell and cellule.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
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