organelles

Cultural  

1. Parts of a cell that store food, discharge waste, produce energy, or perform other functions analogous to what organs do in large living things.

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Example Sentences

Inside plant cells, oxygen is mainly influenced by two structures called organelles.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

To do this, the lab studies how cells organize their internal structures, known as organelles, and how changes in those structures influence cellular performance, metabolism, and disease risk.

From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026

One common trend is the reduction or loss of plastids -- a category of plant organelles that includes chloroplasts, which enable photosynthesis in most plants.

From Science Daily • Dec. 20, 2025

But cells don’t just fix their own organelles.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024

I can sense some, for myself anyway, in what is being learned about organelles.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas