eukaryote
English
A diagram of a eukaryote cell, showing that chromosomal DNA is located in the nucleus
Etymology
Borrowed from French eucaryote; equivalent to eu- + karyon + a suffix derived from Ancient Greek -ώτης (-ṓtēs).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /juːˈkæɹi.əʊt/, /juˈkæɹi.ɒt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /juˈkæɹi.oʊt/, /juˈkæɹi.ət/, /juˈkɛəɹi.oʊt/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: eu‧kary‧ote
Noun
eukaryote (plural eukaryotes or eukarya)
- (cytology) Any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota, whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus.
- 1962 March, Roger Stanier, “The concept of a bacterium”, in Archiv für Mikrobiologie, volume 42, number 1, page 17:
- It is now clear that among organisms there are two different organizational patterns of cells, which Chatton (1937) called, with singuar prescience, the eucaryotic and procaryotic type.
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Translations
any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus
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