noun
apical cell
Technical term in botany and biology for the cell at the tip of a growing structure, such as a root or shoot apex.
頂端細胞は植物の成長点で重要な役割を果たす。
The apical cell plays an important role at the growing point of plants.
Compound of 頂端 (chōtan, 'apex, tip') and 細胞 (saibō, 'cell'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the term is a modern scientific coinage.