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eukarya

eukarya is the plural 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

Questions about eukarya

What is eukarya the plural of?
Eukarya is the plural of eukaryote.

Words near eukarya in the dictionary

  1. euk
  2. eukairite
  3. eukalemia
  4. eukalemic
  5. eukariotic
  6. eukarya
  7. eukaryal
  8. eukaryality
  9. eukaryocentric
  10. eukaryocyte
  11. eukaryocytes

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