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brachycyte

brachycyte noun: a thick-walled, drought-tolerant brood cell in protonemata of mosses of the genus Funaria.

Noun

brachycyte (plural brachycytes)

  1. A thick-walled, drought-tolerant brood cell in protonemata of mosses of the genus Funaria.

Forms of brachycyte

pluralbrachycytes

Questions about brachycyte

What does brachycyte mean?
Brachycyte means a thick-walled, drought-tolerant brood cell in protonemata of mosses of the genus Funaria.
What part of speech is brachycyte?
Brachycyte is a noun.
What is the plural of brachycyte?
The plural of brachycyte is brachycytes.

Words near brachycyte in the dictionary

  1. brachychronic
  2. brachycladiid
  3. brachycladiids
  4. brachycranial
  5. brachycranic
  6. brachycyte
  7. brachycytes
  8. brachydactily
  9. brachydactyl
  10. brachydactylia
  11. brachydactylic

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