FORMATIVE CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does formative cell mean? 

• FORMATIVE CELL (noun)
  The noun FORMATIVE CELL has 1 sense:

1. a cell of an embryo

  Familiarity information: FORMATIVE CELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORMATIVE CELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cell of an embryo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

embryonic cell; formative cell

Hypernyms ("formative 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 "formative cell"):

blastocyte (an undifferentiated embryonic cell)

ameloblast (a cell from which tooth enamel develops)

bone-forming cell; osteoblast (a cell from which bone develops)

erythroblast (a nucleated cell in bone marrow from which red blood cells develop)

fibroblast (a cell from which connective tissue develops)

neuroblast (a cell from which a nerve cell develops)