stone cell

noun

: sclereid

Examples of stone cell in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For this argument Thomasine was jailed—stuffed into a damp, stinking, deadly stone cell crawling with rats and lice—to force her to change her beliefs. — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

Pears, more noticeably than other fruits, have these stone cells with thicker cell walls, which give the flesh a gritty texture; no doubt, the better pears are cultivated to make the stone cells less noticeable to the human palate. — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 15 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1875, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for stone cell

• bagatelle
• calomel
• caravel
• carousel
• carrousel
• citadel
• clientele
• commonweal
• coronel
• decibel
• demoiselle
• fontanelle