calyculin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of a class of serine/threonine protein phosphatase inhibitors originally isolated from the marine sponge Discodermia calyx.
Etymology
From calyc- + -ule + -in.