binucleate

[ bahy-noo-klee-it, -eyt, -nyoo- ]

adjective

, Cell Biology.

1. having two nuclei.

binucleate

/ -ɪt; baɪˈnjuːklɪˌeɪt /

adjective

1. biology having two nuclei Alsobinuclearbinucleated

   a binucleate cell

Word History and Origins

Origin of binucleate¹

First recorded in 1880–85; bi- ¹ + nucleate

Example Sentences

The basidium is a unicellular or multicellular structure from which four basidiospores arise as outgrowths; it starts as a binucleate structure, but soon, like the ascus, becomes uninucleate by the fusion of the two nuclei.

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