Etymology

megasporocyte

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Today it means: a megaspore mother cell Full definition →

Latin cyta ← Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos) ← English megaspore
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The story

  1. Englishmegaspore
  2. Ancient Greekκῠ́τος (kŭ́tos)
  3. Latincyta
  4. English todaymegasporocyte

From megaspore + -cyte.

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