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stercobilin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ster-co-bilin
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tetrapyrrolic bile pigment, one of the end products of heme catabolism, responsible for the brown colour of human faeces

Uncountable

Etymology

From Latin stercus (“dung, excrement”) + Latin bīlis (“bile”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: stercus, bīlis

Usage

Questions

What does stercobilin mean?
A tetrapyrrolic bile pigment, one of the end products of heme catabolism, responsible for the brown colour of human faeces
Where does stercobilin come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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