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

1 sense of centromere

Sense 1
centromere, kinetochore -- (a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape; "the centromere is difficult to sequence")
       => structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure -- (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure")