Definitions for enucleate

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enucleate e·nu·cle·ate

Spelling: [verb ih-noo-klee-eyt, ih-nyoo-; adjective ih-

IPA: /verb ɪˈnu kliˌeɪt, ɪˈnyu-; adjective ɪˈnu kli ɪt, -ˌeɪt, ɪˈnyu-/

Enucleate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 254 anagrams from letters in enucleate (aceeelntu).

Definitions for enucleate

adjective

1. having no nucleus.

verb (used with object)

1. Biology. to deprive of the nucleus.
2. to remove (a kernel, tumor, eyeball, etc.) from its enveloping cover.
3. Archaic. to bring out; disclose; explain.

Origin of enucleate

1540-50; Latin ēnucleātus (past participle of ēnucleāre to remove the pit from (fruit)), equivalent to ē- e-¹ + nucle(us) nucleus

Examples for enucleate

It requireth much discernment and much time to enucleate and bring into light their abstruse wisdom and gravely featured virtues.

I suspect that this error must at first have arisen from some confusion between to eliminate and to enucleate.

Under these circumstances it is better to leave it alone, or, if it be causing signs of irritation, to enucleate the eye.

In the present imperfect state of knowledge it may be impossible to enucleate miracle, however defined, of all mystery.

Associated words: scleroid, enucleate, enucleation, inenucleable.

Associated words: enucleate, enucleation, exacinate, exacination.