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chronocyte

chronocyte noun: a hypothetical ancestor to eukaryotes, which is a cell that engulfed an archaeon and a bacterium.

Noun

chronocyte (plural chronocytes)

  1. A hypothetical ancestor to eukaryotes, which is a cell that engulfed an archaeon and a bacterium.

Forms of chronocyte

pluralchronocytes

Questions about chronocyte

What does chronocyte mean?
Chronocyte means a hypothetical ancestor to eukaryotes, which is a cell that engulfed an archaeon and a bacterium.
What part of speech is chronocyte?
Chronocyte is a noun.
What is the plural of chronocyte?
The plural of chronocyte is chronocytes.

Words near chronocyte in the dictionary

  1. chronocoulometry
  2. chronocultural
  3. chronoculturally
  4. chronocyclegraph
  5. chronocyclegraphs
  6. chronocyte
  7. chronodisruption
  8. chronodisruptive
  9. chronodisruptor
  10. chronodisruptors
  11. chronodistich

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