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monellin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mon-ellin
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sweet protein found in Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Monell + -in, named in 1972 after the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, United States, where it was isolated and characterized.

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Inflected Forms

monellins (plural)

Questions

What does monellin mean?
A sweet protein found in Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii.
Where does monellin come from?
From Monell + -in, named in 1972 after the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, United States, where it was isolated and characterized.

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