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spermine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English

Syllables
sper-mine
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A polyamine, N,N'-bis(3-aminopropyl) butane-1,4-diamine, originally extracted from sperm, that is involved in cellular metabolism.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English sperme English sperm English -ine English spermine From sperm + -ine.

Usage

Inflected Forms

spermines (plural)

Derived Forms

acetylspermine homospermine thermospermine

Questions

What does spermine mean?
A polyamine, N,N'-bis(3-aminopropyl) butane-1,4-diamine, originally extracted from sperm, that is involved in cellular metabolism.
Where does spermine come from?
Etymology tree Middle English sperme English sperm English -ine English spermine From sperm + -ine.

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