leucocyte

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: leu=co=cyte

CIDE DICTIONARY

leucocyte, n. [Leuco- + Gr. ky`tos a hollow vessel.].

 A colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of bone, connective tissue, etc.  [1913 Webster]
" They all consist of more or less spherical masses of protoplasm, without any surrounding membrane or wall, and are capable of motion."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

leucocyte, n. (also leukocyte)
1 a white blood cell.
2 any blood cell that contains a nucleus.

Derivative

leucocytic adj.