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Cyte

//saɪt// noun

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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

Etymology

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

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