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one-celled

one-celled adjective: single-celled, unicellular.

Adjective

one-celled (not comparable)

  1. Single-celled, unicellular.
    • The first (oldest) unit of time is the Precambrian Supereon, which covers much of Earth's history from its origins roughly 4.55 bya to 545 mya. Very primitive, one-celled life-forms arose as early as 4.0 bya and near the end of the era (570 mya) the oldest known fossils of multi-celled organisms...2015, Joyce A. Quinn, Susan L. Woodward, “Introduction”, in Earth's Landscape: An Encyclopedia of the World's Geographic Features, volumes I: A–L, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page xxxi

Origin of one-celled

From one + celled.

Questions about one-celled

What does one-celled mean?
One-celled means single-celled, unicellular.
What part of speech is one-celled?
One-celled is an adjective.

Words near one-celled in the dictionary

  1. one-bar prison
  2. one-bar prisons
  3. one-blink town
  4. one-blink towns
  5. one-camel town
  6. one-celled
  7. one-child policies
  8. one-child policy
  9. one-cold
  10. one-colds
  11. one-day

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