Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

keratein

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ker-atein
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The easily digested reduction product of keratin, in which the disulfide links are reduced to SH groups, the individual peptide chains having been separated.

Etymology

From kerat- + -ein.

Inflected Forms

kerateins (plural)

Questions

What does keratein mean?: The easily digested reduction product of keratin, in which the disulfide links are reduced to SH groups, the individual peptide chains having been separated.
Where does keratein come from?: From kerat- + -ein.

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