WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
cell′ divi′sion, [Biol.]
- Cell Biologythe division of a cell in reproduction or growth.
- 1880–85
'cell division' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
amitosis
- cancer
- chromosome
- cisplatin
- cytokinin
- meiosis
- mitosis
- agamogenesis
- antimitotic
- centromere
- chromatid
- chromatin
- cyclic GMP
- equational
- formative
- kinetochore
- leptotene
- merisis
- mitogen
- nonproliferation
- nucleoprotein
- phragmoplast
- proliferate
- prophase
- reduction
- telomerase
- segmentation