kenno — meaning in English

English meaning

• carton noun A lightweight box made of cardboard or waxed paper, used to package goods.
• cell noun The smallest basic unit of a living organism, capable of growing and reproducing itself.
• honeycomb verb To riddle something with small holes or tunnels, as bees do with a hive.

Senses

kenno is used for these senses in English:

• carton An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.
• cell (biology, now, chiefly, botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions. [from 14th c.]
• cell (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself. [from 19th c.]
• cell A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one. [from 20th c.]
• honeycomb (uncountable) A substance made by bees (clade Anthophila) primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce; it is also eaten by humans as part of comb-honey; (countable) a single sheet made up of two layers of this substance.

cell — full definition

1. noun The smallest basic unit of a living organism, capable of growing and reproducing itself.
2. noun A small locked room in a prison or police station.
3. noun A device that stores electrical energy, used alone or grouped into a battery.
4. noun A small group forming part of a larger, often secretive, organization.

Related Finnish words