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Definition of "nucleated" []

  • Having a nucleus or nuclei: the nucleated cell of a spermatozoon. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "nucleated" in a sentence
  • "Identification and characterization of the cell defect further corroborated our earlier general hypothesis that ubiquitination signals proteins for degradation, and that it also occurs in nucleated cells, a finding we had already demonstrated in Haifa, albeit indirectly"
  • "At Stanford my students and I have continued work on superfluid and solid 3He, studying how the B superfluid phase is nucleated from the higher temperature A phase and diverse properties of magnetically ordered solid 3He in two and three dimensions."
  • "To be extra "nucleated", we could deposit all the Chinese-made children's toys at ground zero, thus doubling our effectiveness."
Words like "nucleated"
nucleated glass