monocellular

English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ cellular.

Adjective

monocellular (not comparable)

1. Of one cell; unicellular.

   Synonyms: single-celled, unicelled, unicellular

   Antonyms: multicelled, multicellular, pluricellular

   • 2009 July 2, Seth Schiesel, “Role Playing at Warp Speed in a Galaxy Darwin Never Imagined”, in New York Times‎:

     In Spore the player guides a species from primordial monocellular ooze through the various stages of evolution: onto land, into tribes, civilizations and finally interstellar colonization.

Derived terms

• monocellularity

Translations

of one cell — see unicellular