unicellular

See also: unicel·lular

English

Etymology

From uni- +‎ cellular.

Adjective

unicellular (not comparable)

(biology) Describing any microorganism that has a single cell
Synonym: monocellular

Antonym: multicellular

Translations

having a single cell

Catalan: unicel·lular (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 單細胞的 (zh), 单细胞的 (zh) (dānxìbāo de)
Czech: jednobuněčný (cs)
Dutch: ééncellig
Finnish: yksisoluinen (fi)
French: unicellulaire (fr) m or f
Galician: unicelular
German: einzellig (de)
Greek: μονοκύτταρος (el) (monokýttaros)
Ido: monocelulala
Irish: aoncheallach
Italian: unicellulare (it)
Japanese: 単細胞の (たんさいぼうの, tansaibō no)

Malay:
Jawi: براونيسيل‎

Rumi: berunisel
Manx: un-chillagagh, un-chelleenagh
Maori: pūtautahi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: encellet (no), encella (no)
Polish: jednokomórkowy (pl) m
Portuguese: unicelular (pt)
Russian: однокле́точный (ru) (odnoklétočnyj), уницеллюля́рный (unicelljuljárnyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: једноста̀ничан

Roman: jednostàničan (sh)
Spanish: unicelular (es) m or f

Noun

unicellular (plural unicellulars)

A single-celled organism; a unicell.
- 1931, Ezra Bowen, An hypothesis of population growth‎
  Among unicellulars, the rate of increase is beyond belief.
- 1986, Johan A J Metz, O Diekmann, The dynamics of physiologically structured populations‎
  In unicellulars the uncoupling of the various nutritional and energy sources is much more widely spread.
- 2006, J Arthur Thomson, Heredity‎
  More or less distinct specialisation of reproductive elements in some unicellulars.

Translations

single-celled organism

Dutch: ééncellige m
German: Einzeller (de) m
Malay:
Jawi: اونيسيل‎ (ms)

Rumi: unisel (ms)

Maori: pūtautahi
Polish: jednokomórkowiec (pl) m
Welsh: ungellog (cy)

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