Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

polyhydroxyalkanoic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: poly-hy-drox-yalka-noic
IPA

47

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Describing an alkanoic acid that has multiple hydroxy substituents

Example Sentences

"To exclude a possible unspecific gene deletion that could lead to an absence of PHB production, cells of strain GHH3 were transformed with plasmid pSMF3_RBCP (Additional file 1 : Figure S5), encoding the genes of the PHB-synthesis operon: PHA polymerase subunit phaR, acetoacetyl-CoA reductase phaB, polyhydroxyalkanoic acid inclusion protein phaP and the genomically deleted gene phaC ."

Etymology

From poly- + hydroxyalkanoic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: poly

Questions

What does polyhydroxyalkanoic mean?: Describing an alkanoic acid that has multiple hydroxy substituents
Where does polyhydroxyalkanoic come from?: From poly- + hydroxyalkanoic.

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