nucleuslike

English

Etymology

From nucleus +‎ -like.

Adjective

nucleuslike (comparative more nucleuslike, superlative most nucleuslike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a nucleus.
   • 1979, John D. Dodge, “The Phytoflagellates: Fine Structure and Phylogeny”, M. Levandowsky, S. H. Hutner (ed.), Biochemistry and Physiology of Protozoa, Academic Press, Inc., →ISBN, volume 1, chapter 1.II, 26:

     Here, starch grains of the food reserve are located on the inner side of the plastids and, more interestingly, adjacent to each chloroplast there is a granular nucleuslike structure which has been termed the cryptonucleus (Greenwood, 1974) or nucleomorph (Figure 5).

Related terms

• nucleoid