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reflectin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
re-flectin
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A protein, found in certain squids, that self-organizes into a film of regularly spaced stripes, the separation of which functions as a tunable diffraction grating to produce a range of reflective colours in the animal's skin

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From reflect + -in.

Usage

Inflected Forms

reflectins (plural)

Questions

What does reflectin mean?
A protein, found in certain squids, that self-organizes into a film of regularly spaced stripes, the separation of which functions as a tunable diffraction grating to produce a range of reflective colours in the animal's skin
Where does reflectin come from?
From reflect + -in.

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