eukaryote

English

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

Alternative forms

• eucaryot
• eucaryote
• eukaryot

Etymology

Borrowed from French eucaryote; equivalent to eu- +‎ karyon + a suffix derived from Ancient Greek -ώτης (-ṓtēs).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /juːˈkæɹi.əʊt/, /juˈkæɹi.ɒt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /juˈkæɹi.oʊt/, /juˈkæɹi.ət/, /juˈkɛəɹi.oʊt/

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• Hyphenation: eu‧kary‧ote

Noun

eukaryote (plural eukaryotes or eukarya)

1. (cytology) Any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota, whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus.
   • 1962 March, Roger Stanier, “The concept of a bacterium”, in Archiv für Mikrobiologie, volume 42, number 1, page 17:

     It is now clear that among organisms there are two different organizational patterns of cells, which Chatton (1937) called, with singuar prescience, the eucaryotic and procaryotic type.

Hyponyms

• bikont
• unikont

Related terms

• eukaryal
• eukaryocyte
• eukaryon
• eukaryotic
• prokaryote

Translations

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

• Arabic: حقيقيات النوى
• Armenian: էուկարիոտ (hy) (ēukariot)
• Bengali: সুকেন্দ্রিক (śukendrik), ইউক্যারিওট (iukkariōṭ)
• 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 (fi), aitotumallinen (fi), eukaryootti (fi)
• French: eucaryote (fr)
• Georgian: ეუკარიოტი (euḳarioṭi)
• German: Eukaryot (de) m
• Greek: ευκαρυώτης m (efkaryótis)
• Hebrew: אֵיקָרְיוֹט (he) (eykaryót)
• Hungarian: eukarióta (hu)
• Icelandic: heilkjörnungur m
• Indonesian: eukaryota, eukariota (id)
• Italian: eucariota m
• Japanese: 真核生物 (ja) (しんかくせいぶつ, shinkaku seibutsu)
• Kazakh: эукариот (éukariot)
• Khmer: អឺការីយ៉ូត (ʼəɨkaariiyout)
• Korean: 진핵생물(眞核生物) (ko) (jinhaeksaengmul)
• Latin: eukaryota f
• Latvian: eikariots
• Lithuanian: eukariotas m
• Low German: eukaryota
• Luxembourgish: eukaryoten pl
• Malayalam: യൂക്കാരിയോട്ടുകൾ (yūkkāriyōṭṭukaḷ)
• Norwegian: eukaryoter
• Occitan: eukarya f
• Persian: هوهسته (huhaste), یوکاریوت
• Polish: jądrowiec m, eukariont (pl) m
• Portuguese: eucariota m, eucarioto m, eucarionte (pt) m
• Quechua: kawsaykuq hukiyuq
• Romanian: eucariotă (ro) f
• 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)
• Vietnamese: sinh vật nhân chuẩn (生物仁純), sinh vật nhân thực (生物仁實), sinh vật nhân điển hình (生物仁典型), sinh vật có nhân chính thức (生物箇仁正式)
• Walloon: eucariote
• Welsh: ewcaryot