Meanings
plural centrioles
- biologyA barrel-shaped microtubule structure found in most animal cells, important in the process of mitosis (nuclear division).
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The aster is at this period closely similar to those of Ascaris at certain periods, as figured by Boveri, and the red mass with its central group of granules corresponds exactly, I think, to Boveri's "centrosome" with its "Centralkorn" or "centriole" ("centrosphere" with its "centrosome" in Strasburger's terminology).
1895, Edmund B. Wilson, “Archoplasm, centrosome, and chromatin in the sea-urchin egg”, in Journal of Morphology, volume 11, number 1
Origin
- Latincentriolum
- Englishcentriole
From Latin centriolum, diminutive of centrum. English equivalent centri- + -ole.
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Catalan centríol
- centríolbarrel shaped microtubule
Esperanto centriolo
- centriolobarrel shaped microtubule
Finnish keskusjyvänen, sentrioli
- keskusjyvänenbarrel shaped microtubule
- sentriolibarrel shaped microtubule
French centriole
- centriolebarrel shaped microtubule
German Zentriol
- Zentriolbarrel shaped microtubule
Indonesian sentriol
- sentriolbarrel shaped microtubule
Italian centriolo
- centriolobarrel shaped microtubule
Polish centriola
- centriolabarrel shaped microtubule
Russian центрио́ль
- центрио́ль (centriólʹ)barrel shaped microtubule
Spanish centríolo, centriolo
- centríolobarrel shaped microtubule
- centriolobarrel shaped microtubule
Tagalog gitbutil
- gitbutilbarrel shaped microtubule
Turkish sentriyol
- sentriyolbarrel shaped microtubule
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centriole. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/centriole
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