Biol. [mod.L., dim. f. CYTE, Gr. κύτος taken as = cell.] The parent cell of an organism; an impregnated ovum.
1879. trans. Haeckel’s Evol. Man, II. xvi. 55. After the cytula … has originated, by the re-formation of a cell-kernel, from the Morula…, the parent-cell breaks up, by repeated division, into numerous cells.
Hence Cytuloplasm, the protoplasmic substance of a cytula.
