Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

homopyrimidine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ho-mopy-rim-i-dine
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Describing a pairing of a pyrimidine with the same one on a neighboring strand of nucleic acid

Example Sentences

"In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ]."

Etymology

From homo- + pyrimidine.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: homo

Frequently Paired Words

homopurine

Questions

What does homopyrimidine mean?: Describing a pairing of a pyrimidine with the same one on a neighboring strand of nucleic acid
Where does homopyrimidine come from?: From homo- + pyrimidine.

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