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caryosome

caryosome is the archaic 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 caryosome

pluralcaryosomes

Questions about caryosome

What is caryosome the archaic form of?
Caryosome is the archaic form of karyosome.

Words near caryosome in the dictionary

  1. caryopsides
  2. caryopsis
  3. caryopterides
  4. caryopteris
  5. caryopterises
  6. caryosome
  7. caryosomes
  8. caryotin
  9. Carys
  10. carzelesin
  11. Carêmian

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