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Webster 1913 Edition


Cytula

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Cyt′u-la

(s?t′?-l?)
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Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
κύτοσ
a hollow vessel.]
(Biol.)
The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.
Hæckel.