Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

glycohydrolase

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gly-co-hy-dro-lase
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of many enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of glycosides

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From glyco- + hydrolase.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: glyco

Usage

Inflected Forms

glycohydrolases (plural)

Derived Forms

exoglycohydrolase

Questions

What does glycohydrolase mean?: Any of many enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of glycosides
Where does glycohydrolase come from?: From glyco- + hydrolase.

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