macroglia

English Thesaurus

1. tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells (noun.body)

hypernym	:	glia, neuroglia,
definition	:	sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system; glial and neural cells together compose the tissue of the central nervous system (noun.body)

part holonym	:	astrocyte,
definition	:	comparatively large neuroglial cell (noun.body)