"brain cell" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-brain cell.wav Forms: brain cells [plural]
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  1. (cytology) A cell in the brain, such as a neuron or a glial cell.
    (colloquial) A neuron.
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  2. (cytology) A cell in the brain, such as a neuron or a glial cell.
    (humorous, figurative, hyperbolic) Taken as a unit of intelligence, especially in small quantities.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: braincell Derived forms: two brain cells to rub together Translations (cell in brain): breinsel (Afrikaans), hjernecelle [common-gender] (Danish), hersencel (Dutch), aivosolu (Finnish), cellule du cerveau [feminine] (French), Gehirnzelle [feminine] (German), heilafruma [feminine] (Icelandic), cellula cerebrale [feminine] (Italian), 脳細胞 (nōsaibō) (alt: のうさいぼう) (Japanese), мозгова́я кле́тка (mozgovája klétka) [feminine] (Russian), célula cerebral [feminine] (Spanish), hjärncell [common-gender] (Swedish), tế bào não (Vietnamese)
Disambiguation of 'cell in brain': 50 50

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.