trophocyte
chiefly Entomology
noun
Any of various types of cell serving a nutritive function; especially a specialized cell of the fat body or a nurse cell of the ovary in an insect.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. After Italian trofocito.
- steal a march on
- stealer
- steal (or hog) the limelight
- steal someone blind
- steal someone's heart
- steal someone's thunder
- stealth
- steal the show
- stealthily
- stealthiness
- stealth tax
- stealthy
- steam
- steam age
- ceremonialism
- ceremonialist
- ceremonially
- ceremonious
- ceremoniously
- ceremoniousness
- ceremony
- Cerenkov
- Cerenkov, Pavel
- Cerenkov radiation
- cereologist