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drosopterin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
drosopterin
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A pteridine, 3,10-diamino-14-methyl-5,6,6a,6b,7,9-hexahydro-4h-pyrimido[4,5:2',3'][1,4]diazepino[6',5':3,4]pyrrolo[1,2-f]pteridine-1,12-dione, that is a red eye pigment of Drosophila melanogaster; any of a class of related compounds.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

drosopterins (plural)

Derived Forms

isodrosopterin neodrosopterin

Questions

What does drosopterin mean?
A pteridine, 3,10-diamino-14-methyl-5,6,6a,6b,7,9-hexahydro-4h-pyrimido[4,5:2',3'][1,4]diazepino[6',5':3,4]pyrrolo[1,2-f]pteridine-1,12-dione, that is a red eye pigment of Drosophila melanogaster; any of a class of related compounds.

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