Definitions
Basic unit of living tissue; also a small room or compartment
Word origin
From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. Ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of cella and hall.
Used in a sentence
“So, taking them apart into his cell, / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […].”
“For three days he and his attendants had wandered in the forest without seeing a human form: but on the evening of the third they came to a cell, in which they found a venerable hermit in the agonies of death.”
“Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues
01“Phone or biology unit”4 letters
02“Tiny biological unit”4 letters
03“Basic unit of life”4 letters
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