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phycocyanobilin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
phy-co-cyanobilin
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A blue phycobilin present in the phycobiliproteins allophycocyanin and phycocyanin, of which it is the terminal acceptor of energy.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From phyco- + cyano- + bilin.

Usage

Inflected Forms

phycocyanobilins (plural)

Questions

What does phycocyanobilin mean?
A blue phycobilin present in the phycobiliproteins allophycocyanin and phycocyanin, of which it is the terminal acceptor of energy.
Where does phycocyanobilin come from?
From phyco- + cyano- + bilin.

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