egg cell

noun

: ovum

Examples of egg cell in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Egg freezing is a process in which unfertilized egg cells are extracted, frozen and stored to preserve fertility, which has become more popular among women who want to have children later in life. — Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

In 1958 British biologist John Gurdon showed that the nucleus from a cell in a tadpole could be transplanted into an egg cell to create an entirely new frog. — Venki Ramakrishnan, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026

The device is a one-square-millimeter photonic chip capable of projecting the Mona Lisa onto an area smaller than the size of two human egg cells. — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2026

In her experiment, McPherson and colleagues created a set-up holding human, mice and pig sperm cells in one part of the compartment and egg cells in the other, divided by a thin channel simulating the female reproductive tract. — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for egg cell

• barbell
• bedwell
• befell
• bluebell
• bombshell
• bridewell
• capelle
• cartel
• carvel
• clamshell
• cogswell
• compel

Kids Definition

egg cell

noun

: egg entry 2 sense 1c

Medical Definition

egg cell

noun

: ovum