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Meanings of single-celled in English

Having a single cell (and thus not divided into cells)

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Examples for "one-celled"
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When times are good, they exist as one-celled individuals, much like amoebas.
A short history of nearly everything
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The forms most frequently seen by such an examination are one-celled plants.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
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The one-celled animal in its shell is, however, no longer a microscopic grain.
The Story of Evolution
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Thus we get an immense variety amongst these Protozoa, as the one-celled animals are called.
The Story of Evolution
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Each one-celled unit remains an animal; it is a colony of unicellulars, not a many-celled body.
The Story of Evolution
Usage of single-celled in English
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Like the bacteria, the archaea were single-celled organisms with relatively simple cells.
BBC
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Fossils of possible older single-celled green plants are still a matter of debate.
News.com.au
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In theory they go all the way back to the first single-celled organisms.
In the beginning ...was the command line
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But remember, these things are much, much simpler than single-celled organisms.
Schild’s Ladder
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If God did not create everything, how did the first single-celled organism originate?
The Guardian
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Amoebas and similar single-celled organisms were treated as proto-animals and algae as proto-plants.
A short history of nearly everything
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Even single-celled animals like bacteria and fungi breathe oxygen and give off heat.
Organic Gardener's Composting
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Under artificial pressure to become larger, single-celled yeast became multicellular creatures.
Wired
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Malaria is caused by a single-celled parasite that infects the blood.
Wired
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The same ray passing through a single-celled sperm or egg would destroy it.
Seveneves
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To fully digest wood, they must rely on even smaller single-celled microbes called endosymbionts.
Wired
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You want to start all over as a single-celled zygote?
Afterlife: the resurrection chronicles
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The same basic dynamics should apply to single-celled organisms, too.
Wired
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Fortunately for your eyeballs, it only works on single-celled organisms.
Wired
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Most living creatures that thrive in extremely hot environments are single-celled bacteria or archaea.
BBC
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Weightlessness alone could not have turned a single-celled organism into this startling green mass.
Gravity