WordNet
n. small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules [syn: centrosome]
Usage examples of "central body".
Tentacles or pipelines ran out along the seabed from the central body to the dozen wells that had been drilled three thousand meters through the oil-rich sandstone.
The four labs, also cigar-shaped, would fit snugly against the central body when the struts were retracted.
The central body of it is hidden in the snowy sparkling mist enveloping it.
Canuin venaticorum, and many others--began to revolve about the greatest central body of gas.
With this checking of the forward motion, the centrifugal force decreases, and the attraction of the central body has more effect.
That scar on his arm was received during some internal troubles that attended the rise of the present director of the Central Body to power.
At the tip of each tentacle was a glowing jewel, and the arms and central body sparkled with lambent dust.
She took three lessons in the central body of water she had misnamed a tidepool.