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phosphohydrolase

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
phos-pho-hy-dro-lase
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any enzyme that hydrolyzes an organic phosphate group

Etymology

From phospho- + hydrolase.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

phosphohydrolases (plural)

Derived Forms

diphosphohydrolase metallophosphohydrolase

Frequently Paired Words

phosphohydrolysis

Questions

What does phosphohydrolase mean?
Any enzyme that hydrolyzes an organic phosphate group
Where does phosphohydrolase come from?
From phospho- + hydrolase.

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