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Meaning of cyte | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

/saɪt/

Definitions

Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”).

rare

Examples

“The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were in 1866 by Hæckel (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 1866, vol. 1, p. 270) called cytodes (cell like) to distinguish them from cytes or cells.”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

cytee cytesin Cytherea cytherellid cytheroidean Cython