Cell
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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The extremes of this are the term "cell phone" becoming less common, especially among younger speakers who assume the term "phone" on its own refers to a device carried in one's pocket.
Source: Technology Marches On -
They store short term memory in their blood and long term memory in their DNA, and every cell is a pluripotent stem cell that can turn into any other kind of cell at the drop of a hat.
Source: Bizarre Alien Biology - On Discovery Channel's I Shouldn't Be Alive, the narrator explains the effects of hypothermia on human cells, using the term "cell walls", in one episode (and is sure they have used it other times).
Source: Artistic License Biology
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Term and Cell. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cell/term
Cell & Term. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cell/term>.
Term or Cell. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cell/term.
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