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vitamin k

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English

Syllables
vi-ta-m-in k
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several related fat-soluble vitamins, found in leafy green vegetables, essential for blood clotting.

Uncountable

noun

The drug ketamine.

Slang; Uncountable

Etymology

Named similarly to the other vitamins, that are named after their order of discovery. This one was assigned its "K" from Danish koagulation by the Danish researcher Henrik Dam. The sense that is a slang alias for ketamine is because of the initial letter of that drug's name, as also with the slang sense of Special K.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Phrases

vitamin K1 vitamin K2

Frequently Paired Words

naphthoquinone

Synonyms

naphthoquinone antihemorrhagic factor

Questions

What does vitamin k mean?
Any of several related fat-soluble vitamins, found in leafy green vegetables, essential for blood clotting.
Where does vitamin k come from?
It is traced to Danish.

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