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thymidine

/ˈθaɪmɪdiːn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.98 in modern English

Syllables
thymi-dine
IPA
/ˈθaɪmɪdiːn/
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The nucleoside consisting of a combination of deoxyribose and thymine

Inflected Forms

thymidines (plural)

Derived Forms

azidothymidine deoxythymidine fluorothymidine oligothymidine polythymidine ribothymidine thymidineless tosylthymidine

Synonyms

deoxythymidine

Questions

How do you pronounce thymidine?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈθaɪmɪdiːn/.
What does thymidine mean?
The nucleoside consisting of a combination of deoxyribose and thymine

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