Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oxazaphosphorine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ox-aza-phos-pho-rine
IPA
42
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of anticancer drugs that contain this structure

Etymology

From oxaza- + phosphorine.

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What does oxazaphosphorine mean?
Any saturated six-membered heterocycle containing three carbon atoms and one each of oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus, especially one in which the phosphorus atom is linked to both the nitrogen and oxygen atoms
Where does oxazaphosphorine come from?
From oxaza- + phosphorine.

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