Illustration: In a Japanese school science room, a student adjusts a digital microscope over a thin onion skin mounted on a glass slide. Its connected monitor shows a magnified field of adjoining rectangular plant cells, each enclosed by a distinct wall, with several dark nuclei clearly visible.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

細さい胞ぼう

saibou

cell

Example sentences

  1. ガン細胞さいぼうとはどのようなものですか。

    What is a cancer cell like?

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  2. 動物どうぶつの体からだは細胞さいぼうでできている。

    Animal bodies are made up of cells.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 人体じんたいは無数むすうの細胞さいぼうからなっている。

    A human body consists of a countless number of cells.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 細胞

  • 細dainty; get thinOnサイKunほそい・ほそる・こまか
  • 胞placenta; sacOnホウ

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