eukaryote

English

A diagram of a eukaryote cell, showing that chromosomal DNA is located in the nucleus

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Alternative forms

• eucaryot
• eucaryote
• eukaryot

Etymology

eu- +‎ kary- +‎ -ote

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /juˈkæɹi.əʊt/, /juˈkæɹi.ɒt/
• Hyphenation: eu‧kary‧ote

Noun

eukaryote (plural eukaryotes or eukarya)

1. Any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota, whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus.

Related terms

• eukaryal
• eukaryon
• eukaryotic
• prokaryote

Translations

any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus

• Armenian: էուկարիոտ (ēukariot)
• Catalan: eucariota (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 真核生物 (zan¹ hat⁶ sang¹ mat⁶)

  Mandarin: 真核生物 (zh) (zhēnhé shēngwù)

• Czech: eukaryota
• Dutch: eukaryoten (nl) pl
• Esperanto: eŭkariotoj pl
• Estonian: eukarüoot (et) pl
• Finnish: aitotumainen, aitotumallinen, eukaryootti (fi)
• French: eucaryote (fr)
• Georgian: ეუკარიოტი (euḳarioṭi)
• German: Eukaryote
• Hebrew: איקריוטיים‎‎ (he) pl
• Hungarian: eukarióta
• Icelandic: heilkjörnungur m
• Indonesian: eukaryota
• Italian: eucariota m
• Japanese: 真核生物 (ja) (しんかくせいぶつ, shinkaku seibutsu)
• Korean: 진핵생물 (jinhaeksaengmul)
• Latin: eukaryota f
• Latvian: eikariots

• Lithuanian: eukariotas m
• Low German: eukaryota
• Luxembourgish: eukaryoten pl
• Norwegian: eukaryoter
• Occitan: eukarya f
• Persian: هوهسته‎‎ (huhaste)
• Polish: jądrowiec m, eukariot m
• Portuguese: eucariota m, eucarioto m, eucarionte (pt) m
• Russian: эукарио́та f (eukarióta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: еукариоте, еукариот

  Roman: eukariote, eukarìōt m

• Slovak: evkariont
• Spanish: eucarionte (es) f
• Sundanese: eukariot
• Swedish: eukaryot (sv) c
• Thai: ยูแคริโอต (yu-kraeyòht)
• Turkish: ökaryot (tr)
• Ukrainian: імперія Ядерні f (impérija Jaderni)
• Vietnamese: sinh vật nhân chuẩn
• Walloon: eucariote
• Welsh: ewcaryot