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egg cell

noun as in ovum

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Human life begins with a single egg cell that grows into a human being with trillions of cells.

Meanwhile, Viatina-19 is pregnant for the first time, and Pereira’s eyeing expansion; her egg cells have sold to Bolivian buyers and he wants to export to the United Arab Emirates, India and the US.

Presenting Donna, the announcer said that each of the four produces 80 egg cells a month – quadruple an average Nelore – and called them “a factory.”

Based on such self-organization, the mammalian embryo develops from a single fertilized egg cell into a multicellular organism.

This means that the male gametes, which are located at the tip of the pollen tube, cannot fuse with the plant's egg cells.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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