Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

glypican

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: glyp-i-can
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of heparan sulfate proteoglycans, anchored to the cell surface via a covalent linkage to glycosylphosphatidylinositol.

Inflected Forms

glypicans (plural)

Questions

What does glypican mean?: Any of a family of heparan sulfate proteoglycans, anchored to the cell surface via a covalent linkage to glycosylphosphatidylinositol.

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