prebiotic
/pɹiːbaɪˈɒtɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.93 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a food, not digestible, but beneficial.
noun
A substance in food that is hard to digest and promotes the growth of beneficial intestinal microorganisms.
Example Sentences
- "There are three compelling reasons that suggest that the first set of prebiotic coding sequences to be translated were repeats of base oligomers, the numbers of bases in oligomeric units not being multiples of three."
- "As a result, studies of uncoded peptide bond formation are founded in using NCAs as substrates (even when obtained as the reactive species of the non-prebiotic CDI activation) for mimicking prebiotic processes."
- "The chemistry of cyanoacetylene, HC₃N, can lead in aqueous solution to the prebiotic synthesis of pyrimidines."
- "The amino acids which were formed through prebiotic reactions were surely chiral."
- "Home to 51 moons, including the prebiotic moon Anafiel, Dumah is a standard hydrogen-helium gas giant with violent surface winds exceeding 1,900 kph."
- "Artificial prebiotic experiments were designed to mimic what might have occurred before life appeared."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English biotic English prebiotic From pre- + biotic.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /pɹiːbaɪˈɒtɪk/