Cyte

//saɪt// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”). rare

    "The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were in 1866 by Hæckel (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 1866, vol. 1, p. 270) called cytodes (cell like) to distinguish them from cytes or cells."

  2. 2
    Obsolete form of city. alt-of, obsolete

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cell

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"The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were in 1866 by Hæckel (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 1866, vol. 1, p. 270) called cytodes (cell like) to distinguish them from cytes or cells."

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos, “hollow”, “vessel”); compare -cyte.

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