speire

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• spireme — /spuy reem/, n. Cell Biol. the threadlike chromatin of a cell nucleus, present during early meiosis or mitosis. [1885 90; < Gk speírema coil, equiv. to speire , var. s. of speirâsthai to be coiled around + ma n. suffix of result] * * * …   Universalium