nucleus

What does nucleus mean?

• noun

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

• noun

  a small group of indispensable persons or things

• noun

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

• noun

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

• noun

  (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

• noun

  the positively charged dense center of an atom

Anagrams of nucleus