Definition of "eucaryote" []

• Variant of eukaryote. (noun)

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• "The fossils mostly include billion year old stromatolites, with the rare eucaryote Horodyskia moniliformis, and the occasional Cretaceous bivalve thrown in for good measure."
• "Together they concluded that the remains belonged to a new type of eucaryote, which they named Horodyskia moniliformis above, right; Fedonkin and Yochelson, 2002, in honor of the contributions of Horodyski to Precambrian paleontology."
• "The constituent bodies of the eucaryote – even those like the mitochondria, which are believed to be descended from parasitic or symbiotic viruses – are regarded as mere organs of the whole, functioning within the central direction of the nucleus."