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dehydrosphinganine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
de-hy-drosph-in-ga-nine
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An oxidised form of sphinganine; 3-dehydrosphinganine is an intermediate if sphingolipid metabolism

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From dehydro- + sphinganine.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

dehydrosphinganines (plural)

Questions

What does dehydrosphinganine mean?
An oxidised form of sphinganine; 3-dehydrosphinganine is an intermediate if sphingolipid metabolism
Where does dehydrosphinganine come from?
From dehydro- + sphinganine.

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