Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phosphorylethanolamine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phos-pho-rylethanolamine
IPA

40

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

3

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An ethanolamine derivative that is used to construct sphingomyelins.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From phosphoryl + ethanolamine.

Usage

Inflected Forms

phosphorylethanolamines (plural)

Questions

What does phosphorylethanolamine mean?: An ethanolamine derivative that is used to construct sphingomyelins.
Where does phosphorylethanolamine come from?: From phosphoryl + ethanolamine.

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