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leucocyte
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun leucocyte has 1 sense
- leucocyte(n = noun.body) leukocyte, wbc, white blood cell, white blood corpuscle, white cell, white corpuscle - blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system; Array has particulars: myelocyte, myeloblast, lymph cell, lymphocyte, granulocyte, monocyte, basophil, basophile, neutrophil, neutrophile, eosinophil, eosinophile
is a kind of blood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle, free phagocyte
CIDE DICTIONARY
leucocyte, n. [Leuco- + Gr. ky`tos a hollow vessel.].
A colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of bone, connective tissue, etc. [1913 Webster]
" They all consist of more or less spherical masses of protoplasm, without any surrounding membrane or wall, and are capable of motion."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
leucocyte, n. (also leukocyte)
1 a white blood cell.
2 any blood cell that contains a nucleus.
1 a white blood cell.
2 any blood cell that contains a nucleus.
Derivative
leucocytic adj.
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