any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes
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| somatic cell |
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| vegetative cell |
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sample sentences
"somatic cells are produced from preexisting cells"
semantic pointers
hypernym
hyponym
skin cell
epithelial cell
neoplastic cell
bone cell
blood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle
phagocyte, scavenger cell
visual cell
fat cell, adipose cell
muscle fiber, muscle cell, muscle fibre
Schwann cell
nerve cell, neuron
neurogliacyte, neuroglial cell, glial cell
hybridoma
mast cell, mastocyte, labrocyte
stem cell
target cell