Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thymine

/ˈθaɪmiːn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English

Syllables: thymine
IPA: /ˈθaɪmiːn/

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione; it pairs with adenine in DNA.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Then he found them, the substances that made up the four-letter alphabet in whose language all life is written — adenine and cytosine, guanine and thymine."
"In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ]."

Etymology

From thymus + -ine. Thymine was first isolated in 1893 by Albrecht Kossel and Albert Neumann from calves' thymus glands, hence its name.

Usage

Inflected Forms

thymines (plural)

Derived Forms

deoxythymine homothymine polythymine thymineless

Phrases

thymidylic acid

Frequently Paired Words

thymidine thymidylate thymidylic acid mul:Thy mul:T adenine cytosine guanine

Synonyms

t

Questions

How do you pronounce thymine?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈθaɪmiːn/.
What does thymine mean?: A heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione; it pairs with adenine in DNA.
Where does thymine come from?: From thymus + -ine. Thymine was first isolated in 1893 by Albrecht Kossel and Albert Neumann from calves' thymus glands, hence its name.

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