POLAR BODY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polar body mean? 

• POLAR BODY (noun)
  The noun POLAR BODY has 1 sense:

1. a small cell containing little cytoplasm that is produced along with the oocyte and later discarded

  Familiarity information: POLAR BODY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLAR BODY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small cell containing little cytoplasm that is produced along with the oocyte and later discarded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("polar body" 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)