| enucleate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | biology to remove the nucleus from (a cell) |
| 2. | surgery to remove (a tumour or other structure) from its capsule without rupturing it |
| 3. | archaic to explain or disclose |
| —adj | |
| 4. | (of cells) deprived of their nuclei |
| [C16: from Latin ēnūcleāre to remove the kernel, from nūcleus kernel] | |
| enucle'ation | |
| —n | |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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