MOTHER CELL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Cell from which another cell of an organism (usually of a different sort) develops

Example:

a sperm cell develops from a sperm mother cell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mother cell" is a kind of...):

cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mother cell"):

spore mother cell (cell from which a spore develops)

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