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cyte

noun
/saɪt/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos, “hollow”, “vessel”); compare -cyte.

  1. borrowed from κῠ́τος

Definitions

  1. Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell…

    Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”).

    • The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were in 1866 by Hæckel (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 1866, vol. 1, p. 270) called cytodes (cell like) to distinguish them from cytes or cells.

  2. Obsolete form of city.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cyte. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA