Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun acrocentric_chromosome

1 sense of acrocentric chromosome

Sense 1
acrocentric chromosome -- (a chromosome with the centromere near one end so that one chromosomal arm is short and one is long)
       => chromosome -- (a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order; "humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes")