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

1 sense of mother cell

Sense 1
mother cell -- (cell from which another cell of an organism (usually of a different sort) develops; "a sperm cell develops from a sperm mother cell")
       => 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)