Word.ws English Dictionary

cyte

UK/saɪt/

cyte noun: synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”). Also the obsolete form of city.

Noun

cyte (plural cytes)

  1. (rare) Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”).
    • The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were in 1866 by Hæckel (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 1866, vol. 1, p. 270) called cytodes (cell like) to distinguish them from cytes or cells.1874 August, Louis Elsberg, «Regeneration, or the Preservation of Organic Molecules: A Contribution to the Doctrine of Evolution» in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of...
    Synonyms:
    cell

Also used as

cyte is also the obsolete form of city.

Synonyms of cyte

Forms of cyte

pluralcytes

Origin of cyte

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos, “hollow”, “vessel”); compare -cyte.

Words that rhyme with cyte

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about cyte

What does cyte mean?
Cyte means synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”).
What part of speech is cyte?
Cyte is a noun.
How do you pronounce cyte?
Cyte is pronounced /saɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of cyte?
The plural of cyte is cytes.

Words near cyte in the dictionary

  1. cytases
  2. cytaster
  3. cytasters
  4. cytauxzoonoses
  5. cytauxzoonosis
  6. cyte
  7. cytee
  8. cytees
  9. cytes
  10. cytesin
  11. Cythera

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cyte (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cyte.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cyte. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.