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- English Word Nucleole Definition The nucleus within a nucleus; nucleolus.
- English Word Nucleoli Definition of Nucleolus
- English Word Nucleolus Definition A little nucleus.
- English Word Nucleolus Definition A small rounded body contained in the nucleus of a cell or a protozoan.
- English Word Nucleoplasm Definition The matter composing the nucleus of a cell; the protoplasm of the nucleus; karyoplasma.
- English Word Nucleoplasmic Definition Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm; -- esp. applied to a body formed in the developing ovum from the plasma of the nucleus of the germinal vesicle.
- English Word Nucleus Definition A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively.
- English Word Nucleus Definition The body or the head of a comet.
- English Word Nucleus Definition An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.
- English Word Nucleus Definition A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats.
- English Word Nucleus Definition A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division.
- English Word Nucleus Definition The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell.
- English Word Nucleus Definition The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum.
- English Word Nucleus Definition A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in Tunicata and some mollusks.
- English Word Nucleuses Definition of Nucleus
- English Word Nucula Definition A genus of small marine bivalve shells, having a pearly interior.
- English Word Nucumentaceous Definition See Nucamentaceous.
- English Word Nudation Definition The act of stripping, or making bare or naked.
- English Word Nuddle Definition To walk quickly with the head bent forward; -- often with along.
- English Word Nude Definition Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue.