eukaryote

noun
/juːˈkæɹi.əʊt/UK/juˈkæɹi.oʊt/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French eucaryote; equivalent to eu- + karyon + -ote.

  1. borrowed from eucaryote

Definitions

  1. Any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota,…

    Any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota, whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus.

    • It is now clear that among organisms there are two different organizational patterns of cells, which Chatton (1937) called, with singuar prescience, the eucaryotic and procaryotic type.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at eukaryote. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at eukaryote. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at eukaryote

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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