Borrowed fromLatinēnucleātus, fromēnucleō(“to remove the kernel from”), fromē- +nucleus(“kernel”).
- (verb)IPA(key): /ɪˈnukliˌeɪt/,/ɪˈnjukliˌeɪt/
- (adjective)IPA(key): /ɪˈnukliɪt/,/ɪˈnjukliɪt/,/ɪˈnukliˌeɪt/,/ɪˈnjukliˌeɪt/
enucleate (third-person singular simple presentenucleates,present participleenucleating,simple past and past participleenucleated)
- (transitive, biology) To remove thenucleus from (acell).
- (transitive, medicine) Toextract (an object)intact from anenclosed space
- (archaic) Toexplain; to lay bare.
to remove, especially a tumor
enucleate (notcomparable)
- Enucleated, having no nucleus.
enucleate (pluralenucleates)
- (biology) A cell which has beenenucleated
1973, D.M. Prescott, J.B. Kirkpatrick, “Mass Enucleation of Captured Animal Cells”, in David M. Prescott, editors,Methods in Cell Biology, Volume VII[1],→ISBN, page197:By 12 hours after enucleation, the rate of incorporation of 3H-labeled amino acids is severely reduced, and by 18 hours manyenucleates no longer show detectable incorporation.
enucleate
- inflection ofenucleare:
- second-personpluralpresentindicative
- second-personpluralimperative
enucleate f pl
- feminineplural ofenucleato
ēnucleātus(“pure, plain”) +-ē
ēnucleātē (notcomparable)
- plainly, in anunadorned manner
- “enucleate”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “enucleate”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
