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Definition of Coenocyte
1. Noun. A cell with multiple nuclei, found in fungi, algae, protists and slime molds. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coenocyte
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Medical Definition of Coenocyte
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Coenocyte
Literary usage of Coenocyte
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1902)
"Under high power draw a single coenocyte, showing the chloroplast and numerous
... Study and draw a large coenocyte of an old net in which the cells are ..."
2. A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae by George Stephen West (1904)
"... which arise by the division of the contents of a single coenocyte. ... into an
external vesicle through a slit in the wall of the mother-coenocyte. ..."
3. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"Again, a " laticiferous cell" of a Euphorbia (and other Phanerogams) is essentially
a coenocyte like the body of a Vaucheria or a ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"WP Jacobs (Princeton University, intrigued with the apparent contradictory aspects
of the algal giant coenocyte Caulerpa with regard to theory of ..."
5. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"... coenocyte; the plant may be extremely small and simple, or it may reach a
length of several inches, but in all cases the body does not consist of more ..."
6. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals by Gilbert Charles Bourne (1900)
"A, embryonic striped muscle fibre from the tail of a tadpole, showing the nuclei ««,
and the protoplasm /, of the coenocyte from which the fibres are ..."
7. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"Such a structure is called a coenocyte. It is frequently regarded as consisting
of as many cells as nuclei are present, not separated, however, by partition ..."
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