Etymology
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organ + -elle
Pronunciation
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organelle (plural organelles)
- (cytology) A specialized structure found inside cells that carries out a specific life process (e.g. ribosomes, vacuoles).
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 161:Like organelles within a single cell, whole new specializations began to develop.
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a membrane bound compartment found within cells
- Catalan: orgànul m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 胞器 (zh) (bāoqì)
- Czech: organela (cs) f
- Dutch: organel (nl)
- Finnish: soluelin (fi)
- French: organite (fr) m
- German: Organell (de) n, Organelle (de) f
- Hebrew: אברון (he) m (evron)
- Hungarian: sejtszervecske (hu), sejtorganellum
- Icelandic: frumulíffæri (is) n
- Ido: organeto (io)
- Indonesian: organel (id)
- Irish: orgánaid f
- Japanese: 細胞小器官 (さいぼうしょうきかん, saibō shōkikan)
- Kazakh: органоид (organoid)
- Khmer: ធាតុកោសិកា (thiət kaosekaa)
- Korean: 세포소기관 (seposogigwan)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: endamok n
- Macedonian: органе́ла f (organéla)
- Maori: wāhanga pūtau
- Occitan: organèla f
- Polish: organella (pl) f, organellum (pl) n, organoid (pl) m
- Portuguese: organela (pt) f, organelo m
- Russian: органе́лла (ru) f (organɛ́lla), органо́ид (ru) m (organóid)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: orgànela f
- Spanish: orgánulo (es), organelo (es) m, elemento celular m
- Swedish: organell (sv) c
- Turkish: organel (tr)
- Ukrainian: органе́ла f (orhanéla), органо́їд m (orhanójid) (dated)
- Vietnamese: bào quan (vi)
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