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nucleuslike

nucleuslike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a nucleus.

Adjective

nucleuslike (comparative more nucleuslike, superlative most nucleuslike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a nucleus.
    • Here, starch grains of the food reserve are located on the inner side of the plastids and, more interestingly, adjacent to each chloroplast there is a granular nucleuslike structure which has been termed the cryptonucleus (Greenwood, 1974) or nucleomorph (Figure 5).1979, John D. Dodge, “The Phytoflagellates: Fine Structure and Phylogeny”, M. Levandowsky, S. H. Hutner (ed.), Biochemistry and Physiology of Protozoa, Academic Press, Inc., volume 1, chapter 1.II, 26

Forms of nucleuslike

comparativemore nucleuslike
superlativemost nucleuslike

Origin of nucleuslike

From nucleus + -like.

Questions about nucleuslike

What does nucleuslike mean?
Nucleuslike means resembling or characteristic of a nucleus.
What part of speech is nucleuslike?
Nucleuslike is an adjective.

Words near nucleuslike in the dictionary

  1. nucleus ambiguus
  2. nucleus globosus
  3. nucleus pulposus
  4. nucleus ruber
  5. nucleuses
  6. nucleuslike
  7. nuclide
  8. nuclides
  9. nuclidic
  10. nucs
  11. Nucsoara

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