protocell
Biology
noun
A primitive cell; a prebiotic precursor of the cell.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.
- the common touch
- the common weal
- the Commonwealth
- the Commonwealth of Nations
- the Confederacy
- the Conquest
- the Constitution
- the Consulate
- the Continent
- the corridors of power
- the Cotswolds
- the course of nature
- the Court Circular
- the Craft
- the cream of the crop
- the Creation
- the Creator
- the Creed
- the Crescent
- the Cross
- the Crown
- the Crucifixion
- the Curragh
- the cut of someone's jib
- the damage is done