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enucleate

[ verb ih-noo-klee-eyt, ih-nyoo-; adjective ih-noo-klee-it, -eyt, ih-nyoo- ]

verb (used with object)

, e·nu·cle·at·ed, e·nu·cle·at·ing.
  1. Biology. to deprive of the nucleus.
  2. to remove (a kernel, tumor, eyeball, etc.) from its enveloping cover.
  3. Archaic. to bring out; disclose; explain.


adjective

  1. having no nucleus.

enucleate

verb

  1. biology to remove the nucleus from (a cell)
  2. surgery to remove (a tumour or other structure) from its capsule without rupturing it
  3. archaic.
    to explain or disclose
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. (of cells) deprived of their nuclei
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • eˌnucleˈation, noun
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Other Words From

  • e·nu·cle·a·tion [ih-noo-klee-, ey, -sh, uh, n, -nyoo-] noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of enucleate1

First recorded in 1540–50; from Latin ēnucleātus (past participle of ēnucleāre “to remove the pit from (fruit)”), equivalent to ē- e- 1 + nucle(us) nucleus + -ātus -ate 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of enucleate1

C16: from Latin ēnūcleāre to remove the kernel, from nūcleus kernel
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Example Sentences

Enucleate, en-ū′kle-āt, v.t. to lay bare, explain: to extract.—n.

"She said if it were her child, she would just enucleate."

I suspect that this error must at first have arisen from some confusion between to eliminate and to enucleate.

But with the light of the New Testament and of modern science, we ought to be able to enucleate the true spiritual idea from such descriptions.

Either operation exposes the gland so that the surgeon can enucleate it with his fingernail or blunt scissors.

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