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A conspicuous, rounded body within the nucleus of a cell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, cytology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nucleole
Antonyms: none provided
a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nucleole
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *knuks Latin nux Latin nucleuslbor. English nucle(us) Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin -olus English nucleolus From nucle(us) + Latin -olus.
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
bërthamëz
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Amharic:
አስኳል
(ʾäskwal)
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Armenian:
կորիզակ
(korizak)
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Azerbaijani:
nüvəcik
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Breton:
nukleol
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Bulgarian:
ядърце
(jadǎrce)
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Catalan:
nuclèol
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Czech:
jadérko
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Dutch:
nucleolus
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Dutch:
kernlichaampje
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Esperanto:
nukleolo
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Estonian:
tuumake
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Faroese:
kyknulikam
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Finnish:
tumajyvänen
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Finnish:
nukleoli
— part of nucleus of a cell
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French:
nucléole
— part of nucleus of a cell
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German:
Kernkörperchen
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Hindi:
केंद्रिका
(kendrikā)
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Hungarian:
sejtmagvacska
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Icelandic:
kjarnakorn
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Ido:
nukleolo
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Irish:
eithneog
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Irish:
núiclín
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Japanese:
核小体
(kakushōtai)
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Kazakh:
ядрошық
(ädroşyq)
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Korean:
핵소체
(haeksoche)
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Northern Kurdish:
dendikok
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Latvian:
kodoliņš
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Lithuanian:
branduolėlis
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Manx:
myn-heshvean
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Mongolian:
бөөмхөн
(böömxön)
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
kromosomar
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Polish:
jąderko
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Polish:
nukleolus
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Portuguese:
nucléolo
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Quechua:
huk'icha
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Russian:
я́дрышко
(jádryško)
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Serbo-Croatian:
једа́рце
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Serbo-Croatian:
jedárce
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Spanish:
nucléolo
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Swedish:
nukleol
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Tagalog:
ibutod
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Tamil:
கருவுட்பருனி
(karuvuṭparuṉi)
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Turkish:
çekirdekçik
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Ukrainian:
ядерце
(jaderce)
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Vietnamese:
hạch nhân
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Vietnamese:
nhân con
— part of nucleus of a cell
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Welsh:
cnewyllan
— part of nucleus of a cell