neck cell
noun
1 Botany a neck canal cell.
2 Histology any of the mucus-containing cells located in the neck of a gastric gland (more fully mucous neck cell).
3 Botany an intermediate or middle cell of a plant hair.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Huxley (1825–1895), biologist and science educationist.
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