prokaryote
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From pro- + Ancient Greek κάρυον (karuon, “nut, kernel”) + -ote.
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prokaryote (plural prokaryotes)
- an organism characterized by the absence of a nuclear membrane and by DNA that is not organized into chromosomes.
- in the two-empire system of biological taxonomy, an organism of the kingdom Prokaryotae (now superseded).
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- Icelandic: dreifkjörnungur (is) m.
- Russian: прокариота (prokarióta) f.
- Spanish: procariota (es) f.
