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CENTRIOLE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
One of a pair of small cylindrical cell organelles near the nucleus in animal cells; composed of nine triplet microtubules and form the asters during mitosis
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Hypernyms ("centriole" is a kind of...):
cell organ; cell organelle; organelle (a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ)
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