NEUTROPHILE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyes

Synonyms:

neutrophil; neutrophile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("neutrophile" is a kind of...):

leucocyte; leukocyte; WBC; white blood cell; white blood corpuscle; white cell; white corpuscle (blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system)

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

microphage (a neutrophil that ingests small things (as bacteria))

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