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/jˌunɪsˈɛljələr/ Listen

Unicellular

adjective

Having or consisting of a single cell.

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"Unicellular" Quotes from Famous Books

... instance of a purely morphological character with no biological significance. But recent investigations have shown that these, too, have an adaptive significance (Haecker). The same thing has been shown by Schuett in regard to the lowly unicellular plants, the Peridineae, which abound alike on the surface of the ocean and in its depths. It has been shown that the long skeletal processes which grow out from these organisms have significance not merely as a supporting skeleton, but also ...

— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel

... other hand, the most marvellous displays of instinct are to be found not only in plants, but also in those lowest organisms of the simplest bodily form which are partly unicellular, and in respect of conscious intelligence stand far below the higher plants—to which, indeed, any kind of deliberative faculty is commonly denied. Even in the case of those minute microscopic organisms that baffle our attempts to classify them either as animals ...

— Unconscious Memory • Samuel Butler

Words linked to "Unicellular" : cell