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cariosome

cariosome is the alternative form of karyosome.

Meaning of karyosome

Noun

karyosome (countable and uncountable, plural karyosomes)

  1. The chromatin material inside a cell nucleus when the cell is not undergoing mitotic division.

Forms of cariosome

pluralcariosomes

Questions about cariosome

What is cariosome the alternative form of?
Cariosome is the alternative form of karyosome.

Words near cariosome in the dictionary

  1. carioprotective
  2. cariopses
  3. cariopsis
  4. cariosis
  5. cariosity
  6. cariosome
  7. cariosomes
  8. cariostasis
  9. cariostat
  10. cariostatic
  11. cariostats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cariosome (page history and authors); karyosome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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