VEGETATIVE CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vegetative cell mean? 

• VEGETATIVE CELL (noun)
  The noun VEGETATIVE CELL has 1 sense:

1. any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes

  Familiarity information: VEGETATIVE CELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VEGETATIVE CELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

somatic cell; vegetative cell

Context example:

somatic cells are produced from preexisting cells

Hypernyms ("vegetative cell" is a kind of...):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vegetative cell"):

skin cell (any of the cells making up the skin)

epithelial cell (one of the closely packed cells forming the epithelium)

neoplastic cell (a cell that is part of tumor)

bone cell (a cell that is part of a bone)

blood cell; blood corpuscle; corpuscle (either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets)

phagocyte; scavenger cell (a cell that engulfs and digests debris and invading microorganisms)

visual cell (one of the cells of the retina that is sensitive to light)

adipose cell; fat cell (cells composed of fat)

muscle cell; muscle fiber; muscle fibre (an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body)

Schwann cell (any cell that covers the nerve fibers in the peripheral nervous system and forms the myelin sheath)

nerve cell; neuron (a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses)

glial cell; neurogliacyte; neuroglial cell (a cell of the neuroglia)

hybridoma (a hybrid cell resulting from the fusion of a lymphocyte and a tumor cell; used to culture a specific monoclonal antibody)

labrocyte; mast cell; mastocyte (a large connective tissue cell that contains histamine and heparin and serotonin which are released in allergic reactions or in response to injury or inflammation)

stem cell (an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells))

target cell (any cell that has a specific receptor for an antigen or antibody or hormone or drug, or is the focus of contact by a virus or phagocyte or nerve fiber etc.)