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apical

[ey-pi-kuhl, ap-i-] / ˈeɪ pɪ kəl, ˈæp ɪ- /








ADJECTIVE
tiptop
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Antonyms


ADJECTIVE
uppermost
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"The AO has a striking complexity when compared to apical organs of cnidarian and bilaterian. It is so unique!"

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2026

As a result, apical progenitor cells were less able to renew themselves.

From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025

The measurements were taken at the neurons' distal apical dendrites of the visual cortex, which receive top-down signals, and at their cell bodies, which receive bottom-up signals.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023

The apical complex is located at the narrow end.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Growing from the apex by a terminal bud or by the apical cell only.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa