Coenocyte Definition

sēnə-sīt
noun

Syncytium.

Webster's New World
A mass of protoplasm containing several nuclei formed from an original cell with one nucleus.
Webster's New World
An organism of such a mass.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Coenocyte

Noun

Singular:
coenocyte
Plural:
coenocytes

Coenocyte Sentence Examples

  • In the group of the Siphoneae both these types of differentiation may exist in the single, long, branched, tube-like and multinucleate cell (coenocyte) which here forms the plant-body.

  • Certain Protococcales and Confervales exist spoken of as a coenocyte.

  • The so-called zoospore of Vaucheria is a coenocyte covered over with paired cilia corresponding in position to nuclei lying below.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOE

Words Ending With

ETEYTE

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Words Starting With C and Ending With E

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