phragmoplast

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A structure that forms in plant cells during late cytokinesis and serves as a scaffold for cell plate assembly and subsequent formation of a new cell wall separating the two daughter cells.

Similar words

microtubules phragmosome phragmospore phragma phycoplast rhizoplast phaeoplast plasm periplast sphaeroplast

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and microtubules is in formation of

Word family

phragmoplasts