nucleuslike

== English == === Etymology === From nucleus +‎ -like. === Adjective === nucleuslike (comparative more nucleuslike, superlative most nucleuslike) Resembling or characteristic of a nucleus. 1979, John D. Dodge, “The Phytoflagellates: Fine Structure and Phylogeny”, M. Levandowsky, S. H. Hutner (ed.), Biochemistry and Physiology of Protozoa, Academic Press, Inc., →ISBN, volume 1, chapter 1.II, 26: 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). ==== Related terms ==== nucleoid