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glucosylsphingosine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
glu-co-syl-sph-in-go-sine
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The cytotoxic glucosyl derivative of sphingosine (2S,3R,4E)-2-amino-3-hydroxy-4-octadecen-1-yl β-D-glucopyranoside

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From glucosyl + sphingosine.

Usage

Inflected Forms

glucosylsphingosines (plural)

Questions

What does glucosylsphingosine mean?
The cytotoxic glucosyl derivative of sphingosine (2S,3R,4E)-2-amino-3-hydroxy-4-octadecen-1-yl β-D-glucopyranoside
Where does glucosylsphingosine come from?
From glucosyl + sphingosine.

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