(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals | a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth |
a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction | the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions |
a room where a prisoner is kept | any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) |
small room in which a monk or nun lives | coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis |
any small compartment | a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn |
a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver | |
a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement | |