English Explanatory Dictionary

bacteriocyte

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A modified adipocyte, in some insects, containing symbiotic bacteria

Word forms

bacteriocyte bacteriocytes

Etymology

From bacterio- + -cyte.

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