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

1 sense of erythrocyte

Sense 1
red blood cell, RBC, erythrocyte -- (a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus)
       => blood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle -- (either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets)