prokaryote

1. 1.

   a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma

   Synonymsprocaryote

   Antonymseukaryote

   Broaderorganism

Other forms of prokaryote

plural

prokaryotes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prokaryote

What does prokaryote mean?

prokaryote means "a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma".

How many syllables are in prokaryote?

prokaryote has 3 syllables: pro-ka-ryote. The stress falls on "pro".

What is another word for prokaryote?

Close synonyms include procaryote. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of prokaryote?

The recorded antonyms are eukaryote.

Is prokaryote a common word?

prokaryote is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.