sex cell
Biology
noun
A reproductive cell, either male or female in function; a gamete (sperm or egg cell), or a cell which gives rise to gametes.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Patrick Geddes (1854–1932), social evolutionist and city planner.
- backwardly compatible
- backward masking
- backwardness
- backward roll
- backwards
- backwards and forwards
- backwards compatibility
- backwards-compatible
- backwash
- back water
- backwater
- backwind
- backwoods
- backwoodsman
- backyard
- bacne
- Bacolod
- bacon
- bacon and eggs
- baconer
- Bacon, Francis
- Baconian
- Bacon, Roger
- bacronym
- bacteraemia