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cytes

cytes is the plural of cyte.

Meaning of cyte

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

Questions about cytes

What is cytes the plural of?
Cytes is the plural of cyte.

Words near cytes in the dictionary

  1. cytauxzoonoses
  2. cytauxzoonosis
  3. cyte
  4. cytee
  5. cytees
  6. cytes
  7. cytesin
  8. Cythera
  9. Cytherea
  10. Cytherean
  11. Cythereans

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