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trinucleated

trinucleated adjective: modified to have three nuclei.

Adjective

trinucleated (not comparable)

  1. Modified to have three nuclei
    • A less likely possibility, the extremely reduced form of autogamy [42 ], could not be completely discounted, because the second nuclear division (meiosis II) and subsequent fusion of haploid, sister nuclei might have been very rapid and thus the trinucleated stage (two sister nuclei following...2015 October 21, “Auxosporulation in Paralia guyana MacGillivary (Bacillariophyta) and Possible New Insights into the Habit of the Earliest Diatoms”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of trinucleated

From tri- + nucleated.

Questions about trinucleated

What does trinucleated mean?
Trinucleated means modified to have three nuclei.
What part of speech is trinucleated?
Trinucleated is an adjective.

Words near trinucleated in the dictionary

  1. Trinovantes
  2. Trinovantum
  3. trinuclear
  4. trinuclearity
  5. trinucleate
  6. trinucleated
  7. trinucleating
  8. trinucleid
  9. trinucleids
  10. trinucleon
  11. trinucleons

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