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CELLULAR DIVISION

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• CELLULAR DIVISION (noun)
The noun CELLULAR DIVISION has 1 sense:

1. the process in reproduction and growth by which a cell divides to form daughter cells

Familiarity information: CELLULAR DIVISION used as a noun is very rare.

• CELLULAR DIVISION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The process in reproduction and growth by which a cell divides to form daughter cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

cell division; cellular division

Hypernyms ("cellular division" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cellular division"):

amitosis (the direct method of cell division characterized by simple division of the nucleus without formation of chromosomes)

cleavage; segmentation ((embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum)

meiosis; miosis; reduction division ((genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants))

mitosis (cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes)

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