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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

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

This is why skeletal muscle cells are multinucleate, as the nucleus of each contributing myoblast remains intact in the mature skeletal muscle cell.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Single protist cells range in size from less than a micrometer to the 3-meter lengths of the multinucleate cells of the seaweed Caulerpa.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

The trophozoite begins life as a small, rounded uninucleate corpuscle, which as it grows, becomes multinucleate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various