"Celled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... possessing a one-celled heart, and colder and darker blood, they approach to the state of fish; which thus appear not to acquire so much oxygen by their gills from the water as terrestrial animals do by their lungs from the atmosphere; whence it may be concluded ...
— The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society - A Poem, with Philosophical Notes • Erasmus Darwin
... the division of the originally single celled egg into a number of coherent cells or blastomeres; ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith
... as the trumpet's blast outsounds the thin flute, so high above all others did thy lyre ring; nor idly did the tawny swarm mould their waxen-celled honey, O Pindar, about thy tender lips: witness the horned god of Maenalus when he sang thy hymn and ...
— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail
... of Graptolites (including the genera Diplograptus, Dicranograptus, Climacograptus, &c.) the common stem of the colony gives origin, over part or the whole or its length, to two rows of cells, one on each side (fig. 41). These "double-celled" Graptolites are highly characteristic of the Lower Silurian deposits; and, with an exception more apparent than real in Bohemia, they are exclusively confined to strata of Lower Silurian age, and are ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson
... single organic cell, while others are made up of countless millions of such cells. Between these two extremes we have all degrees, from the innumerable cells that build up the body of the highest Vertebrate to the single-celled Worm, and from the myriad cells of the Oak ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various |
