Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quinolinate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: quino-li-nate
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any salt or ester of quinolinic acid.

Example Sentences

"The non-target near-full length hits include those with putative functions to pyruvate dikinases, hypothetical proteins, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinases, cytochrome p460, CoA substrate specific enzyme activases and quinolinate synthetases, among others."

Etymology

From quinolinic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

Inflected Forms

quinolinates (plural)

Questions

What does quinolinate mean?: Any salt or ester of quinolinic acid.
Where does quinolinate come from?: From quinolinic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

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