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cell walls

cell walls is the plural of cell wall.

Meaning of cell wall

Noun

cell wall (plural cell walls)

  1. A rigid, non-living structural layer located outside the cell membrane in certain cells, such as those of plants, fungi, bacteria, and some algae, providing support, shape, and protection.
    • The name of Chlamydomonas is applied to certain microscopic green bodies, each of which consists of a protoplasmic central substance invested by a structureless sac. The latter contains cellulose, as in ordinary plants; and the chlorophyll which gives the green colour enables the Chlamydomonas to...1876, T. H. Huxley, “On the Border Territory between the Animal and the Vegetable Kingdoms”, in Littell's Living Age, vol. 128, no. 1657

Questions about cell walls

What is cell walls the plural of?
Cell walls is the plural of cell wall.

Words near cell walls in the dictionary

  1. cell towers
  2. cell type
  3. cell types
  4. cell up
  5. cell wall
  6. cell walls
  7. cell yell
  8. cell-adhesion molecule
  9. cell-adhesion molecules
  10. cell-cell junction
  11. cell-free

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