Definition of Multinucleate

1. Adjective. Having two or more nuclei.

Partainyms: Nucleus
Antonyms: Uninucleate

Definition of Multinucleate

1. a. Multinuclear.

Definition of Multinucleate

1. Adjective. (biology) having more than one nucleus; multinuclear ¹

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Definition of Multinucleate

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Multinucleate

multinight
multinitrogen
multinodal
multinodate
multinode
multinodous
multinodular
multinodular goiter
multinomial
multinomial distribution
multinomials
multinominal
multinominous
multinuclear
multinuclear leukocyte
multinucleate (current term)
multinucleated
multinucleation
multinucleolate
multinucleon
multinucleosis
multinumber
multinumbers
multiobject
multiobjective
multiobservation
multiobservational
multioccupancy
multioctave
multiocular

Literary usage of Multinucleate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. General Physiology: An Outline of the Science of Life by Max Verworn (1899)
"Hence, strictly, it is not proper to consider the plasmodium of Myxomycetes as a multinucleate cell; at the same time it is not justifiable to speak of it ..."

2. Investigations Representing the Departments; Zoölogy, Anatomy, Physiology by University of Chicago (1903)
"It is conceivable that a uninucleate sexual element might become multinucleate, perhaps through such an increase in the protoplasmic content that more than ..."

3. Observations on the placenta of the rabbit by Walter Chipman (1902)
"The processes of multinucleate cells which lie peninsula-wise in the foetal placenta are larger and more finger-like. Where the plane of the section has cut ..."

4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"multinucleate cells.—The occasional occurrence of multinucleate cells in the ... They are inclined to believe that this binucleate or multinucleate phase ..."

5. An Introduction to Cytology by Lester Whyland Sharp (1921)
"In large multinucleate masses that become broken up into spores this progressive cleavage is a very complicated process. The manner in which the furrows ..."

6. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"160) which fusion during fertilization; also the multinucleate antheridium ... 160), and when the male nuclei are discharged, there is multinucleate fusion, ..."

7. The Physiology of Plants: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of by Wilhelm Pfeffer (1900)
"Unicellular tissue elements may also be multinucleate, as is the case, for example, in those laticiferous tubes which are derived from a single cell. ..."

8. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1902)
"... antheridial tube is multinucleate and the numerous antheridial nuclei fuse in pairs with ... consequently giving rise to a multinucleate winter oospore. ..."

9. General Physiology: An Outline of the Science of Life by Max Verworn (1899)
"Hence, strictly, it is not proper to consider the plasmodium of Myxomycetes as a multinucleate cell; at the same time it is not justifiable to speak of it ..."

10. Investigations Representing the Departments; Zoölogy, Anatomy, Physiology by University of Chicago (1903)
"It is conceivable that a uninucleate sexual element might become multinucleate, perhaps through such an increase in the protoplasmic content that more than ..."

11. Observations on the placenta of the rabbit by Walter Chipman (1902)
"The processes of multinucleate cells which lie peninsula-wise in the foetal placenta are larger and more finger-like. Where the plane of the section has cut ..."

12. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"multinucleate cells.—The occasional occurrence of multinucleate cells in the ... They are inclined to believe that this binucleate or multinucleate phase ..."

13. An Introduction to Cytology by Lester Whyland Sharp (1921)
"In large multinucleate masses that become broken up into spores this progressive cleavage is a very complicated process. The manner in which the furrows ..."

14. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"160) which fusion during fertilization; also the multinucleate antheridium ... 160), and when the male nuclei are discharged, there is multinucleate fusion, ..."

15. The Physiology of Plants: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of by Wilhelm Pfeffer (1900)
"Unicellular tissue elements may also be multinucleate, as is the case, for example, in those laticiferous tubes which are derived from a single cell. ..."

16. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1902)
"... antheridial tube is multinucleate and the numerous antheridial nuclei fuse in pairs with ... consequently giving rise to a multinucleate winter oospore. ..."

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