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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In cytology, a plate arising, toward the close of cell-division, from a thickening of the spindle-fibers in the equatorial or division plane. The cell-plate is well developed in plant cells, but small or vestigial in those of animals. See cut under dispireme.

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