VACUOLE Antonyms

• any small compartment

• (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals

• a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

• a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

• a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

• small room in which a monk or nun lives

• a room where a prisoner is kept

• plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments; in plants that carry out photosynthesis

• the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism

• a thin pliable sheet of material

• a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants

• an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy

• a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction

• the positively charged dense center of an atom

• a small group of indispensable persons or things

• (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail

• any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord

• the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex

• a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ

• the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)