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elicitin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
elic-itin
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of small, highly conserved toxic proteins secreted by certain phytopathogenic microorganisms and inducing a necrotic and systemic hypersensitive response in certain plants.

Etymology

From elicit + -in.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

elicitins (plural)

Questions

What does elicitin mean?
Any of a family of small, highly conserved toxic proteins secreted by certain phytopathogenic microorganisms and inducing a necrotic and systemic hypersensitive response in certain plants.
Where does elicitin come from?
From elicit + -in.

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