anucleateadj.
/eɪˈnjuːklɪət/, U.S. /eɪˈn(j)ukliət/ Biology.
Of a cell, or a fragment of one: having no nucleus.
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anucleate1849
non-nuclear1852
anucleated1872
enucleated1885
enucleate1889
non-nuclear1950
1849 Med. Times 19 May 586/3 The description and drawings of this Author [sc. Gulliver] in his translation of ‘Gerben's Allgemeine Anatomie,’ only treat of colourless blood corpuscles, with many nuclei, and anucleate, collapsed corpuscles, which were probably clods of fibrin.
1880 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 3 95 Differentiation of egg into egg-cell and anucleate food-yolk takes place before impregnation.
1953 Internat. Rev. Cytol. 2 477 The nucleus lies within the rhizoid. Thus, cutting off the rhizoid produces anucleate parts.
1979 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) June 29/2 The anucleate mammalian red blood cell is the only well-known exception.
2001 G. W. Rouse & F. Pleijel Polychaetes lxv. 262/2 The haemerythrin in the anucleate corpuscles has a very high molecular weight.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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