multinucleate
- a word derived from nucleate.
Example Sentences
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Cardiac muscle cells have striations, but, unlike the multinucleate skeletal cells, they have only one nucleus.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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
Reproduction occurs by division, by budding or by fragmentation, but the parts are invariably multinucleate.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
