See Also: phragmoplast(medicine)
phragmoplast(dictionary)

phragmoplast (iou)



phragmoplast noun. E20.
[from (the same root as) PHRAGMA + -O- + -PLAST.]
Biology. A set of microtubules which forms during mitosis in some plant cells as a barrel-shaped structure joining the two sets of chromosomes after their separation to the poles.
phragmo'plastic adjective M20.