noun
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 cells are produced from preexisting cells
• Syn: ↑vegetative cell
• Hypernyms: ↑cell
• Hyponyms:
↑skin cell, ↑epithelial cell, ↑neoplastic cell, ↑bone cell, ↑blood cell, ↑blood corpuscle, ↑corpuscle, ↑phagocyte, ↑scavenger cell, ↑visual cell, ↑fat cell, ↑adipose cell, ↑muscle cell, ↑muscle fiber, ↑muscle fibre, ↑Schwann cell, ↑nerve cell, ↑neuron, ↑neurogliacyte, ↑neuroglial cell, ↑glial cell, ↑hybridoma, ↑mast cell, ↑mastocyte, ↑labrocyte, ↑stem cell, ↑target cell
Useful english dictionary. 2012.