enucleate

Meanings

Verb

• To remove the nucleus from (a cell).
• To remove without cutting into it; especially, to remove or gouge out (an eyeball or tumor).
• To explain; to lay bare.

Adjective

• Enucleated, having no nucleus.

Noun

• A cell which has been enucleated

Origin

• Borrowed from New Latin enucleatus, from enucleare "to remove the kernel from", from e- + nucleus "kernel".