Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nucleosidase

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nu-cle-osi-dase
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a nucleoside, separating the base and the sugar

Etymology

From nucleoside + -ase.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: nucleoside

Inflected Forms

nucleosidases (plural)

Derived Forms

ectonucleosidase

Questions

What does nucleosidase mean?: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a nucleoside, separating the base and the sugar
Where does nucleosidase come from?: From nucleoside + -ase.

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