English noun: organelle | |||
| 1. | organelle (body) a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ | ||
| Samples | The first organelle to be identified was the nucleus. | ||
| Synonyms | cell organ, cell organelle | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | organ | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cell nucleus, centriole, chondriosome, cilium, karyon, lysosome, mitochondrion, nucleole, nucleolus, nucleus, ribosome | ||
| Part meronym | cell | ||