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nucleolar |
nucleolar organiser |
nucleolar organizer |
nucleolated |
nucleole |
Nucleolus
| nucleolus organiser
| nucleolus organizer
| nucleon
| nucleon number
| nucleonics
Nucleolus
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Nucleolus has 1 sense
- nucleolus(n = noun.body) nucleole - a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis; Array is a part of cell nucleus, karyon, nucleus
is a kind of cell organ, cell organelle, organelle
CIDE DICTIONARY
Nucleolus, n. [L., a little nut, dim. of nucleus.].
- A little nucleus. [1913 Webster]
- A small rounded body contained in the nucleus of a cell or a protozoan. [1913 Webster]" It was termed by Agassiz the entoblast. In the protozoa, where it may be situated on one side of the nucleus, it is sometimes called the endoplastule, and is supposed to be concerned in the male part of the reproductive process. See
Nucleus ." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Nucleolus, n. (pl. nucleoli) a small dense spherical structure within a non-dividing nucleus.
Derivative
nucleolar adj.
Etymology
LL, dimin. of L nucleus: see NUCLEUS
ROGET THESAURUS
Nucleolus
Middle
N middle, midst, mediety, mean, medium, middle term, center &c, mid-course, mezzo termine, juste milieu, halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos, nucleus, nucleolus, equidistance, bisection, half distance, equator, diaphragm, midriff, intermediate, middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average, middlemost, midmost, mediate, intermediate, equidistant, central, mediterranean, equatorial, homocentric, in the middle, midway, halfway, midships, amidships, in medias res.Centrality
N centrality, centricalness, center, middle, focus, core, kernel, nucleus, nucleolus, heart, pole axis, bull's eye, nave, navel, umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith, vertebra, vertebral column, hotbed, concentration, centralization, symmetry, center of gravity, center of pressure, center of percussion, center of oscillation, center of buoyancy, metacenter, central, centrical, middle, azygous, axial, focal, umbilical, concentric, middlemost, rachidian, spinal, vertebral, middle, midst, centrally.
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