Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cellless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cel-l-less
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Without cells.

Example Sentences

"Salt tolerance, salt accumulation, and ionic homeostasis in an epidermal bladder-cellless mutant of the common ice plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Journal of Experimental Botany 58, 1957. Albert, R. (1975)."
"However, the fluxes of potassium (k+) and chlorine (Cl-) cause a hyperpolarization making the cellless excitable. The opening of these channels is either voltage-dependent or linked to a neurotransmitter (Safini, Bouskraoui, Pédiatrie,[…]"
"Germ cellless encodes a cell type-specific nuclear pore-associated protein and functions early in the germ-cell specification pathway of Drosophila. Genes Dev. 8, 2123–2136. Kasahara, K., Chida, K., Tsunenaga, M., Kohno, Y., Ikuta, T.,[…]"

Etymology

From cell + -less.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: cell

Questions

What does cellless mean?: Without cells.
Where does cellless come from?: From cell + -less.

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