mother cell

1. 1.

   cell from which another cell of an organism (usually of a different sort) develops

   “a sperm cell develops from a sperm mother cell”

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   Narrowerspore mother cell

Questions about mother cell

What does mother cell mean?

mother cell means "cell from which another cell of an organism (usually of a different sort) develops".

Is mother cell a common word?

mother 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.