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

1 sense of centriole

Sense 1
centriole -- (one of a pair of small cylindrical cell organelles near the nucleus in animal cells; composed of nine triplet microtubules and form the asters during mitosis)
       => organelle, cell organelle, cell organ -- (a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ; "the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus")