mother cell

noun

: a cell that gives rise to other cells usually of a different sort

Examples of mother cell in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Print Cell division, or the process of how daughter cells emerge from a mother cell, is fundamental to biology. —Somin Lee, The Conversation, 20 July 2023

The sticky cells in each of these snowflakes were genetically identical to each other---each cell had budded off from a mother cell, but had stuck around rather than setting off on its own. —Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2011

Word History

First Known Use

1840, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

mother cell

noun

: a cell that gives rise to other cells usually of a different sort

a sperm mother cell