nucleate
adjective
having a nucleus.
multinucleate
-
a word derived from
nucleate.
Example Sentences
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The pulsating blobs of Texas-backyard mystery are plasmodia — multinucleate masses that course the forest until conditions are just right for them to form the colorful fruiting bodies full of spores.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
Still other protists are composed of enormous, multinucleate, single cells that look like amorphous blobs of slime, or in other cases, like ferns.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The parasite spends its time there as a multinucleate plasmodium — its own cycle still must be regulated as to not multiply its way out of the host cell and blow it up.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2013
However, cardiac and smooth muscle cells are not multinucleate because the myoblasts that form their cells do not fuse.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The multiplication of the internal nuclei is accompanied by a corresponding division of the cytoplasm; so that instead of a multinucleate or plasmodial condition, distinct uninucleate cellules are formed, up to sixteen in number.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
