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
In addition, some chlorophytes exist as large, multinucleate, single cells.
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
The nucleus of each contributing myoblast remains intact in the mature skeletal muscle cell, resulting in a mature, multinucleate cell.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The large multinucleate animal withdraws its pseudopods, its vacuoles disappear, it encysts and its nuclei diminish in number to about 1⁄20th partly by fusion, 2 and 2, probably by digestion of the majority.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
