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

1 sense of nucleole

Sense 1
nucleolus, nucleole -- (a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis)
       => organelle, cell organelle, cell organ -- (a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ; "the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus")