nucleomorph
/ˈnjuːklɪə(ʊ)moːf/Cell Biol.
noun
An organelle found in the chloroplasts of cryptomonads and certain other protists which is bounded by a double membrane, contains genetic material, and is thought to represent the vestigial nucleus of an endosymbiotic algal cell.
Origin
1970s. From nucleo- + -morph.
- lowering
- lower-level
- lower mast
- Lower Merion
- lower-middlebrow
- lower middle class
- lowermost
- pointsman
- point something out
- point something up
- point source
- point-sphere
- point spread
- point-spread function
- points rationing
- points system
- points value
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- points win
- point system
- point taken
- point the bone at
- point the finger
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- point-to-point