Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

polyadenylate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: polyadeny-late
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any salt or ester of polyadenylic acid.

verb

To form the polyadenylate salt or ester of something (especially of a nucleic acid).

Etymology

From polyadenylic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

Inflected Forms

polyadenylates (plural) polyadenylates (present, singular) polyadenylating (participle, present) polyadenylated (participle, past) polyadenylated (past)

Questions

What does polyadenylate mean?: Any salt or ester of polyadenylic acid.
Where does polyadenylate come from?: From polyadenylic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

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