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

1 sense of telomere

Sense 1
telomere -- (either (free) end of a eukaryotic chromosome; "telomeres act as caps to keep the sticky ends of chromosomes from randomly clumping together")
       => end, terminal -- (either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix")