eukaryote

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eukaryote

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• eucaryot
• eucaryote
• eukaryot

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /juːˈkæɹi.əʊt/, /juˈkæɹi.ɒt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /juˈkæɹi.oʊt/, /juˈkæɹi.ət/, /juˈkɛəɹi.oʊt/

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• Hyphenation: eu‧kary‧ote

eukaryote (plural eukaryotes or eukarya)

1. (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.

• bikont
• unikont

• eukaryal
• eukaryocyte
• eukaryon
• eukaryotic
• prokaryote