Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

biobank

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.82 in modern English

Syllables: biobank
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several types of repository of biological material (e.g. seeds) or information (e.g. DNA).

verb

To store (biological material) in a biobank.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"2016, Alysson Bessani et al, "BiobankCloud: A Platform for the Secure Storage, Sharing, and Processing of Large Biomedical Data Sets" (abstract), Biomedical Data Management and Graph Online Querying. Biobanks store and catalog human biological material that is increasingly being digitized using next-generation sequencing (NGS)."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der. English bio- English bank English biobank From bio- + bank.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

biobanks (plural) biobanks (present, singular) biobanking (participle, present) biobanked (participle, past) biobanked (past)

Derived Forms

biobanker biobanking

Questions

What does biobank mean?: Any of several types of repository of biological material (e.g. seeds) or information (e.g. DNA).
Where does biobank come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der. English bio- English bank English biobank From bio- + bank.

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