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tyrosine

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English

Syllables
ty-ro-sine
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A nonessential amino acid 2-amino-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propanoic acid found in most animal proteins, especially casein

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”) + -ine (since first discovered in cheese); surface analysis is approximately tyro- + -ine.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

tyrosines (plural)

Derived Forms

azatyrosine diiodotyrosine dityrosine homotyrosine methyltyrosine multityrosine nitrotyrosine phosphotyrosine polytyrosine pretyrosine sulfotyrosine tirofiban

Phrases

Bruton's tyrosine kinase

Synonyms

Tyr

Questions

What does tyrosine mean?
A nonessential amino acid 2-amino-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propanoic acid found in most animal proteins, especially casein
Where does tyrosine come from?
From Ancient Greek τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”) + -ine (since first discovered in cheese); surface analysis is approximately tyro- + -ine.

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