heterooligosaccharide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any oligosaccharide composed of two or more different monosaccharides
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor. English hetero- Ancient Greek ὀλῐ́γος (olĭ́gos)der. English oligo- Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Pali sakkharābor. Ancient Greek σάκχαρ (sákkhar)bor. Latin saccharon Latin saccharum English saccharo- English -ide English saccharide English oligosaccharide English heterooligosaccharide From hetero- + oligosaccharide.