egg cell

noun

1. egg ¹( def 5 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of egg cell¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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Then chromosomes of definite size and form, and corresponding in number to those present in the fertilised egg-cell, again appear.

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

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

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