archæocyte Zool.
(ˈɑːkiːəsaɪt)
Also archeocyte.
[f. archæo- + -cyte.]
A wandering amœboid cell, esp. in a sponge: see quots.
| 1887 W. J. Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 419/2 Amœboid wandering cells or archæocytes are scattered through the matrix of the collenchyme. 1900 E. A. Minchin in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. II. iii. 58 The archaeocytes may be considered from two points of view: first, as wandering cells, or amoebocytes; secondly, as reproductive cells, or tokocytes. 1951 E. N. Willmer in G. Bourne Cytology (ed. 2) xi. 463 Two archeocytes are seen at the posterior end. |