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plural organelles
(cytology) A specialized structure found inside cells that carries out a specific life process (e.g. ribosomes, vacuoles). quotations
Like organelles within a single cell, whole new specializations began to develop.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 161