trinucleated

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English

Etymology

From tri- +‎ nucleated.

Adjective

trinucleated (not comparable)

  1. Modified to have three nuclei
    • 2015 October 21, “Auxosporulation in Paralia guyana MacGillivary (Bacillariophyta) and Possible New Insights into the Habit of the Earliest Diatoms”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      A less likely possibility, the extremely reduced form of autogamy [42 ], could not be completely discounted, because the second nuclear division (meiosis II) and subsequent fusion of haploid, sister nuclei might have been very rapid and thus the trinucleated stage (two sister nuclei following second meiosis plus a lasting pyknotic product of the first division) in the young (small) auxospores difficult to capture.