† feminonucleusn.
Biology. Obsolete. rare.
A. Hyatt's term for: the nucleus of an oocyte.
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term?a1540
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feminonucleus1884
1884 A. Hyatt in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 23 54 We propose..to call the undifferentiated generative body the nucleus, and its products respectively the male or masculonucleus, and the female or feminonucleus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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