célula-tronco
Portuguese, noun
célula-tronco is spelled C-É-L-U-L-A-T-R-O-N-C-O (12 letters). Célula-tronco is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “stem cell (primal undifferentiated cell)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “célula que tem capacidade de gerar qualquer qualidade de célula com especialização”.
What does célula-tronco mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininestem cell (primal undifferentiated cell)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. célula que tem capacidade de gerar qualquer qualidade de célula com especialização
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of célula-tronco
- células-tronco plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).