eukaryote

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
16
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/juːˈkæɹi.əʊt/
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/juːˈkæɹi.əʊt/ · /juˈkæɹi.ɒt/ · /juˈkæɹi.oʊt/ · /juˈkæɹi.ət/ · /juˈkɛəɹi.oʊt/

Definition of eukaryote

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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 singuar prescience, the eucaryotic and procaryotic type.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from French eucaryote; equivalent to eu- + karyon + -ote.

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