WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
ba′sal bod′y, [Cell Biol.]
- a cylindrical organelle, within the cytoplasm of flagellated and ciliated cells, that contains microtubules and forms the base of a flagellum or cilium: identical in internal structure to a centriole.
- 1900–05
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