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parapeptone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
para-pep-tone
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Etymology

From para- + peptone.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

parapeptones (plural)

Questions

What does parapeptone mean?
An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.
Where does parapeptone come from?
From para- + peptone.

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