Eukaryote

//juːˈkæɹi.əʊt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota, whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus.

    "It is now clear that among organisms there are two different organizational patterns of cells, which Chatton (1937) called, with singuar prescience, the eucaryotic and procaryotic type."

  2. 2
    an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with ‘good’ or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells wordnet

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eucaryote

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"It is now clear that among organisms there are two different organizational patterns of cells, which Chatton (1937) called, with singuar prescience, the eucaryotic and procaryotic type."

Etymology

Borrowed from French eucaryote; equivalent to eu- + karyon + -ote.

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