pronuclear

¹ American  

[proh-noo-klee-er, -nyoo-, -kyuh-ler] / proʊˈnu kli ər, -ˈnyu-, -kyə lər /

adjective

1. advocating the building or use of nuclear power plants.

2. advocating the building, stockpiling, or use of nuclear weapons.

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pronuclear ² American  

[proh-noo-klee-er, -nyoo-, -kyuh-ler] / proʊˈnu kli ər, -ˈnyu-, -kyə lər /

adjective

Cell Biology.

1. of or relating to a pronucleus.

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pronuclear ¹ British  

/ ˌprəʊˈnjuːklɪə /

adjective

1. in favour of or supporting the use of nuclear power

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pronuclear ² British  

/ ˌprəʊˈnjuːklɪə /

adjective

1. of or relating to a pronucleus

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Pronunciation

See nuclear.

Other Word Forms

• pronuclearist noun

Etymology

Origin of pronuclear¹

First recorded in 1970–75; pro- ¹ + nuclear

Origin of pronuclear²

First recorded in 1885–90; pronucle(us) + -ar ¹

Example Sentences

“I wondered what the other side of this argument was. Being pronuclear war?”

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2023

The pronuclear group calculated that each of Indian Point’s reactors had been producing more power than all of the wind turbines and solar panels in the state combined.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2021

Significance established using Student’s t-test. b, Representative images showing normal morphology of CRISPR–Cas9-injected pronuclear stage zygotes, eight-cell embryos and blastocysts.

From Nature • Aug. 1, 2017

Significance established using Student’s t-test. b, Representative images showing normal morphology of CRISPR–Cas9-injected pronuclear stage zygotes, eight-cell embryos and blastocysts.

From Nature • Aug. 1, 2017

I am an environmentalist, and for that reason I am ardently pronuclear.

From Time Magazine Archive