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biliverdin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English

Syllables
biliverdin
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A green tetrapyrrolic bile pigment, a product of heme catabolism, responsible for the greenish color sometimes seen in bruises.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, from German Biliverdin. By surface analysis, bili- + Italian verde + -in. The German word was naturalized into other languages as international scientific vocabulary (e.g., biliverdin, biliverdine, biliwerdyna).

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Usage

Inflected Forms

biliverdins (plural)

Derived Forms

biliverdinemia

Frequently Paired Words

bilicyanin bilirubin

Questions

What does biliverdin mean?
A green tetrapyrrolic bile pigment, a product of heme catabolism, responsible for the greenish color sometimes seen in bruises.
Where does biliverdin come from?
It is traced to German.

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