binucleate

American

[bahy-noo-klee-it, -eyt, -nyoo-] / baɪˈnu kli ɪt, -ˌeɪt, -ˈnyu- /

Also binuclear

adjective

Cell Biology.

having two nuclei.

binucleate British

/ -ɪt, baɪˈnjuːklɪˌeɪt /

adjective

Also: binuclear. binucleated. biology having two nuclei

a binucleate cell

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Etymology

Origin of binucleate

First recorded in 1880–85; bi- ¹ + nucleate

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The basidium is a unicellular or multicellular structure from which four basidiospores arise as outgrowths; it starts as a binucleate structure, but soon, like the ascus, becomes uninucleate by the fusion of the two nuclei.

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