Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kahalalide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ka-ha-lalide
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of depsipeptides that show antitumour activity

Example Sentences

"For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp."

Inflected Forms

kahalalides (plural)

Questions

What does kahalalide mean?: Any of a family of depsipeptides that show antitumour activity

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