Meaning

2 senses

  1. (rare)A section of a compound fruit; a nutlet; a small nut.

  2. The oogonium of a charophyte.

Origin

Borrowed from Latin nucula (“little nut”).

Borrowed from Latin nucula (“little nut”).

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Forms

plural: nucules
Singularnucule
Pluralnucules

regular

Word family

2 related words
Derivednucularnuculoid

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
nuclearB1nucleicnucleusB1nudenudge
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