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noun Zoology.

one of the hollow cells terminating the branches of the excretory tubules of certain invertebrates, having a tuft of continuously moving cilia.

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Origin of flame cell

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby flame cell

flamboyant, flame, flame-arc light, flame azalea, flame carbon, flame cell, flame color, flame cultivator, flame cutting, flamefish, flame-fusion process

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How to use flame cell in a sentence

Joel Osteen wants to talk about muting your cell phone at the dinner table.
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At that point, the Library of Congress can once again decide to prohibit consumers from unlocking their cell phones.
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Earlier this year, security at major airports was tightened because of a tip that al-Asiri had been working on a cell phone bomb.
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Hatuey asked the religious man holding the flame if indeed any Christians were in heaven.
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At least one of those ubiquitous cell phone cameras began filming.
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In his condemned cell he composed a beautiful poem of 14 verses (“My last Thought”), which was found by his wife and published.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Some writers state that each cell contains about one thousand seeds.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
Like many another cavalier, he had a flame in every country, or rather, in every town which he visited.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Any epithelial cell may be so granular from degenerative changes that the nucleus is obscured.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The sediment contains a few hyaline and finely granular casts and an occasional red blood-cell.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

British Dictionary definitions for flame cell

flame cell

noun

an organ of excretion in flatworms: a hollow cup-shaped cell containing a bunch of cilia, whose movement draws in waste products and wafts them to the outside through a connecting tubule

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