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
Mr. Darwin then has put forth the hypothesis, that not only all animals, but all vegetables too, might have come from one and the same primitive type, from one and the same living cellule.
From The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism by Downton, Henry
This secondary conidium can sometimes engender a third cellule by a similar process.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
When one of the two seeds aborts, the remaining one acquires a greater size, and fills the interior of the fruit, which in that case, of course, has but one cellule.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
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