(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:53:15

Cyt"u*la (s?t"?-l?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. a hollow vessel.] Biol.

The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.

Haeckel.

 

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