Usually means: Female reproductive cell in organisms.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. egg cell: Merriam-Webster
  2. egg cell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. egg cell: Collins English Dictionary
  4. egg cell: Vocabulary.com
  5. egg-cell: Wordnik
  6. egg cell: Wiktionary
  7. egg cell: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. egg cell: Dictionary.com
  9. Egg cell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. egg cell: Rhymezone
  11. egg cell: FreeDictionary.org
  12. egg cell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. egg cell: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. egg cell: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. egg cell: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. egg cell: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (egg cell)

▸ noun:  A cell, found in females, which merges with a sperm cell to form a zygote.

Similar:
ovum, eggcell, zygote, spermatozoon, ovocyte, afteregg, oocyte, germ cell, blastomere, spermatozoön, more...

Opposite:
sperm cell, male gamete

Types:
ovum, female gamete, germ cell, more...

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Similar:
ovum, eggcell, zygote, spermatozoon, ovocyte, afteregg, oocyte, germ cell, blastomere, spermatozoön, more...

Opposite:
sperm cell, male gamete

Types:
ovum, female gamete, germ cell, more...



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