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eucaryote

eucaryote is the alternative spelling of eukaryote.

Meaning of eukaryote

Noun

eukaryote (plural eukaryotes or eukarya)

  1. Any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota, whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus.
    • It is now clear that among organisms there are two different organizational patterns of cells, which Chatton (1937) called, with singular prescience, the eucaryotic and procaryotic type.1962 March, Roger Stanier, “The concept of a bacterium”, in Archiv für Mikrobiologie, volume 42, number 1, page 17

Forms of eucaryote

pluraleucaryotes

Words formed from eucaryote

Questions about eucaryote

What is eucaryote the alternative spelling of?
Eucaryote is the alternative spelling of eukaryote.

Words near eucaryote in the dictionary

  1. eucarpy
  2. eucarvone
  3. eucaryon
  4. eucaryons
  5. eucaryot
  6. eucaryote
  7. eucaryotes
  8. eucaryotic
  9. eucaryots
  10. eucasin
  11. eucasins

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