vegetative cell

Questions about vegetative cell

What does vegetative cell mean?

vegetative 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 vegetative cell?

Close synonyms include somatic 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 vegetative cell a common word?

vegetative 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.