archaeocytes

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archaeocytes (noun, plural; Greek arche, beginning; kytos, container): 1. (Porifera) Large, wandering amoebocytes with multiple phagosomes in the mesenchyme; nurse cells; trophocytes.

2. A totipotent amoeboid cell.