egg cell

noun
egg ( def 5 ).

Origin:
1875–80

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egg cell

noun
the female reproductive cell; the female gamete [syn: ovum
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Egg cell is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
In ordinary cloning, the nucleus of an egg cell is replaced with the nucleus from a body cell of the animal to be cloned.
The process, also called nuclear transfer, begins when a nucleus is removed from an egg cell.
Moreover, they were able to perform the repair before an egg cell was even fertilized.
The glowing dogs show it is possible to successfully insert fluorescent genes into an egg cell.
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