Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany and zoology:
  • Formed like a nucleus.
  • In the shape of a rounded tubercle: applied in botany to the apothecia of certain lichens. Also nucleoid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Formed like a nucleus or kernel.

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  • adjective Formed like a nucleus or kernel.

Etymologies

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Latin nucleus kernel + -form.

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