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staurosporine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English

Syllables
stau-rosporine
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An alkaloid derived from the bacterium Streptomyces staurosporeus that has antifungal and antihypertensive properties

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

staurosporeus + -ine

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

staurosporines (plural)

Derived Forms

hydroxystaurosporine

Questions

What does staurosporine mean?
An alkaloid derived from the bacterium Streptomyces staurosporeus that has antifungal and antihypertensive properties
Where does staurosporine come from?
staurosporeus + -ine

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