eukaryote
noun/juˈkæriˌoʊt/
Frequency rank: #19,829 most common English word
Meaning
an organism whose cells have a distinct membrane-bound nucleus
Example sentence
A biologist explained that every plant and animal is eukaryote, an organism whose cells contain a nucleus.
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