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cleavage furrows

cleavage furrows is the plural of cleavage furrow.

Meaning of cleavage furrow

Noun

cleavage furrow (plural cleavage furrows)

  1. The invagination of the cell membrane, at the equatorial plane of the cell, that characterizes the onset of cytokinesis in animal cells.

Questions about cleavage furrows

What is cleavage furrows the plural of?
Cleavage furrows is the plural of cleavage furrow.

Words near cleavage furrows in the dictionary

  1. cleavabilities
  2. cleavability
  3. cleavable
  4. cleavage
  5. cleavage furrow
  6. cleavage furrows
  7. cleavage tape
  8. cleavaged
  9. cleavages
  10. cleavase
  11. cleavases

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