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dehydrosqualene

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
de-hy-drosqua-lene
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An apocarotenoid intermediate in the biosynthesis of carotenoids

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From dehydro- + squalene.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

dehydrosqualenes (plural)

Questions

What does dehydrosqualene mean?
An apocarotenoid intermediate in the biosynthesis of carotenoids
Where does dehydrosqualene come from?
From dehydro- + squalene.

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