MOTHER CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mother cell mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTHER CELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Context example:

a sperm cell develops from a sperm mother cell

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)