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Meaning of NUCLEUS in English

A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively.

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    Meaning of NUCLEUS in English

    • A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively.
    • The body or the head of a comet.
    • An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.
    • A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats.
    • A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division.
    • The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell.
    • The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum.
    • A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in Tunicata and some mollusks.

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