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(Definition of germ cell noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- -celled suffix
- cellular adjective (ORGANISM)
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- corpuscle noun
- covalent bond noun
- cytoplasm noun
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- effector noun
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