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caveolae

caveolae is the plural of caveola.

Meaning of caveola

Noun

caveola (plural caveolae)

  1. A small (50–100 nanometer) invagination of the plasma membrane in many vertebrate cell types.

Questions about caveolae

What is caveolae the plural of?
Caveolae is the plural of caveola.

Words near caveolae in the dictionary

  1. cavendishias
  2. cavendishioid
  3. Cavens
  4. caveogenesis
  5. caveola
  6. caveolae
  7. caveolar
  8. caveolated
  9. caveoli
  10. caveolin
  11. caveolinopathies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caveolae (page history and authors); caveola (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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