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Definition of Egg cell
1. Noun. The female reproductive cell; the female gamete.
Specialized synonyms: Egg, Ootid, Ovule
Generic synonyms: Gamete
Group relationships: Female Reproductive System
Derivative terms: Ovulate
Definition of Egg cell
1. Noun. A cell, found in females, which merges with a sperm cell to form a zygote. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Egg cell
1. The unfertilised ovum. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Egg Cell
Literary usage of Egg cell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems by August Weismann, Edward Bagnall Poulton, Selmar Schöland, Arthur Everett Shipley (1889)
"But the egg-cell of most animals, at any rate during the period of growth, ...
In most cases the egg-cell also forms membranes which are often ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"Of the numerous embryos produced in a single orange seed, one apparently develops
normally from the fecundated egg cell and the other from certain cells of ..."
3. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1917)
"They of the egg-cell. In any case, the specificity of life is found to be due to
definite chemical causes, and not to anything mystical. 3. ..."
4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"The fertilized egg-cell, which we may now term the embryonic cell, ... Had it
not been fertilized the egg-cell would have remained naked and inactive, ..."
5. The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund Beecher Wilson (1897)
"The egg-cell rapidly grows, apparently at the expense of the nurse-cell, which
becomes reduced to a mere rudiment attached to one side of the egg and ..."
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