complementary cells

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plural noun Botany.

cells fitting closely together in the lenticel.

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Origin of complementary cells

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby complementary cells

complementary, complementary air, complementary angle, complementary angles, complementary base, complementary cells, complementary color, complementary colour, complementary distribution, complementary DNA, complementary gene

How to use complementary cells in a sentence

There are millions of stories that end with black boys in jail cells.
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Hollywood might possibly fear North Korean sleeper cells capable of blowing up theaters that screen anti-Nork films.
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The cells are austere—essentially hardened trailers—that cost about $40,000 each to build.
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In fact, four of 20 cells at Cobalt were found to have bars across the cell to allow this.
Inside the CIA’s Sadistic Dungeon|Tim Mak|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

African-Americans, wrote Mailer, “known down to the cells of [their] existence that life is war, nothing but war.”
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Beginners must be warned against mistaking the edges of cells, or particles which have retained the red stain, for bacilli.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Renal cells are abundant in parenchymatous nephritis, especially the acute form.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
(a) Epithelial casts contain epithelial cells from the renal tubules.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
They are cells which have been highly differentiated for the purpose of carrying oxygen from the lungs to the tissues.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Yeast-cells are smooth, colorless, highly refractive, spheric or ovoid cells.
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