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

1 sense of daughter cell

Sense 1
daughter cell -- (a cell formed by the division or budding of another cell; "anthrax grows by dividing into two daughter cells that are generally identical")
       => 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)