mycoprotein
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A gelatinous albuminoid resembling protoplasm, of which the putrefactive bacteria are composed.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "A general concern on microbial protein from a filamentous fungus, generically named mycoprotein, is the possible contamination of mycotoxins produced by the fungus, as known from food spoilage by fungi (Filtenborg et al., 1996) and from production of enzymes and other food ingredients (Blumenthal, 2004; Mapari et al., 2005)."
Etymology
From myco- + protein.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: myco