enucleate

Borrowed from Latin ēnucleātus, from ēnucleō (“to remove the kernel from”), from ē- + nucleus (“kernel”).

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ɪˈnukliˌeɪt/, /ɪˈnjukliˌeɪt/

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• (adjective) IPA^(key): /ɪˈnukliɪt/, /ɪˈnjukliɪt/, /ɪˈnukliˌeɪt/, /ɪˈnjukliˌeɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt, -eɪt

enucleate (third-person singular simple present enucleates, present participle enucleating, simple past and past participle enucleated)

1. (transitive, biology) To remove the nucleus from (a cell).
2. (transitive, medicine) To extract (an object) intact from an enclosed space
3. (archaic) To explain; to lay bare.

• enucleation
• self-enucleate

enucleate (not comparable)

1. Enucleated, having no nucleus.

enucleate (plural enucleates)

1. (biology) A cell which has been enucleated
   • 1973, D.M. Prescott, J.B. Kirkpatrick, “Mass Enucleation of Captured Animal Cells”, in David M. Prescott, editors, Methods in Cell Biology, Volume VII‎, →ISBN, page 197:

     By 12 hours after enucleation, the rate of incorporation of 3H-labeled amino acids is severely reduced, and by 18 hours many enucleates no longer show detectable incorporation.

• anucleate
• denucleate
• nucleate

enucleate

1. inflection of enucleare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

enucleate f pl

1. feminine plural of enucleato

ēnucleātus (“pure, plain”) +‎ -ē

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ēnucleātē (not comparable)

1. plainly, in an unadorned manner

• “enucleate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “enucleate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers