Usually means: Single-celled organisms without a nucleus.
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  1. prokaryote: Merriam-Webster
  2. prokaryote: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. prokaryote: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prokaryote: Vocabulary.com
  5. prokaryote: Wordnik
  6. prokaryote: Wiktionary
  7. prokaryote: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. prokaryote (procaryote): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. prokaryote: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. prokaryote: Dictionary.com
  11. Prokaryote: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  14. prokaryote: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. prokaryote: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. prokaryote: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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  1. prokaryote: Encyclopedia

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  1. prokaryote: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Prokaryote: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  6. prokaryote: Medical dictionary
  7. Prokaryote: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  4. prokaryote: Evolution Glossary
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  6. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

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  1. prokaryote: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prokaryote)

noun:  An organism whose cell (or cells) are characterized by the absence of a nucleus or any other membrane-bound organelles.
noun:  In the two-empire system of biological taxonomy, an organism of the kingdom Prokaryotae (now superseded).

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