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single-celled

adj. having a single cell (and thus not divided into cells) [syn: one-celled]

Usage examples of "single-celled".

And if they're colonies of single-celled creatures, one of which happens to collide with a microprobe and register its presence with surface receptors .

The animated amino acid double helixes began to replicate themselves, leading to a single-celled life.

Inside the fruiting body are millions of spores that, at the appropriate moment, are released to the wind to blow away and become single-celled organisms that can start the process again.

It was tempting to assume that they were colonies of single-celled organisms, something like giant kelp, but there was no real evidence yet to back that up.

It was tempting to assume that they were colonies of single-celled organisms, something like giant kelp-but there was no real evidence yet to back that up.

It was tempting to assume that they were colonies of single-celled organisms, something like giant kelp—.

In theory they go all the way back to the first single-celled organisms.

Originally, simple inorganic compounds gave rise to more complicated substances, which in the course of time evolved self-replication and progressed through single-celled organisms to the advanced, multicellular life forms of today.

I have rocks from the pre-Cambrian, three-billion-year-old rocks, containing fossils of protobionts, the first, single-celled life forms, our remotest ancestors.