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cyte

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.”

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