prenucleus

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English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ nucleus.

Adjective

prenucleus (not comparable)

  1. Occurring before the development of a nucleus

Noun

prenucleus (plural prenuclei)

  1. Non-subject elements that are placed at the beginning of a clause before the subject in an interrogative. (e.g. which one in Which one did you pick? ).
    • 2019, Anne Lacheret-Dujour, Sylvain Kahane, Paola Pietrandrea, Rhapsodie: A prosodic and syntactic treebank for spoken French:
      We have identified three kinds of peripheral constituents: ad-nuclei (i.e., pre-nuclei, in-nuclei and post-nuclei), associated nuclei and IU openers.
  2. A partially formed nucleus that is still developing.
    • 1959 ·, Doklady: biological sciences sections - Volumes 128-131, page 212:
      In egg nucleus one prenucleus in which the chromosomes are developing . This prenucleus could have been formed as a result of fusion of nucleolus and sperm ;

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