nucleuslike

comparative more nucleuslike · superlative most nucleuslike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a nucleus.

   Here, starch grains of the food reserve are located on the inner side of the plastids and, more interestingly, adjacent to each chloroplast there is a granular nucleuslike structure which has been termed the cryptonucleus (Greenwood, 1974) or nucleomorph (Figure 5).

   1979, John D. Dodge, “The Phytoflagellates: Fine Structure and Phylogeny”, M. Levandowsky, S. H. Hutner (ed.), Biochemistry and Physiology of Protozoa, Academic Press, Inc., volume 1, chapter 1.II, 26