mother cell

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mother cell - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mother \Moth"er\, a.
     Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as,
     mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of
     a mother; producing others; originating.
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           It is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is
           derived.                                 --T. Arnold.
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     Mother cell (Biol.), a cell which, by endogenous divisions,
        gives rise to other cells (daughter cells); a parent cell.
        
  
     Mother church, the original church; a church from which
        other churches have sprung; as, the mother church of a
        diocese.
  
     Mother country, the country of one's parents or ancestors;
        the country from which the people of a colony derive their
        origin.
  
     Mother liquor (Chem.), the impure or complex residual
        solution which remains after the salts readily or
        regularly crystallizing have been removed.
  
     Mother queen, the mother of a reigning sovereign; a queen
        mother.
  
     Mother tongue.
     (a) A language from which another language has had its
         origin.
     (b) The language of one's native land; native tongue.
  
     Mother water. See Mother liquor (above).
  
     Mother wit, natural or native wit or intelligence.
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mother cell - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mother cell
      n 1: cell from which another cell of an organism (usually of a
           different sort) develops; "a sperm cell develops from a
           sperm mother cell"