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dihydropyrimidine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
di-hy-dropy-rim-i-dine
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A heterocycle formed from pyrimidine by the addition of two hydrogen atoms across a double bond

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From di- + hydro- + pyrimidine.

Usage

Inflected Forms

dihydropyrimidines (plural)

Derived Forms

dihydropyrimidinase

Phrases

dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase

Questions

What does dihydropyrimidine mean?
A heterocycle formed from pyrimidine by the addition of two hydrogen atoms across a double bond
Where does dihydropyrimidine come from?
From di- + hydro- + pyrimidine.

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