Vocabulary : Nucleoplasmic to Nudging
Nucleoplasmic : Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm; -- esp. applied to a body formed in the developing ovum from the plasma of the nucleus of the germinal vesicle.Nucleus : 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.
Nucleuses : of Nucleus
Nucula : A genus of small marine bivalve shells, having a pearly interior.
Nucumentaceous : See Nucamentaceous.
