somatic cell

Questions about somatic cell

What does somatic cell mean?

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

What is another word for somatic cell?

Close synonyms include vegetative cell. 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 somatic cell a common word?

somatic 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.