bone-forming cell

1. 1.

   a cell from which bone develops

   Synonymsosteoblast

   Broaderembryonic cell

Questions about bone-forming cell

What does bone-forming cell mean?

bone-forming cell means "a cell from which bone develops".

What is another word for bone-forming cell?

Close synonyms include osteoblast. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bone-forming cell a common word?

bone-forming cell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.