"endochitinase" meaning in English

See endochitinase in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: endochitinases [plural]
Etymology: From endo- + chitinase. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|endo|chitinase}} endo- + chitinase Head templates: {{en-noun}} endochitinase (plural endochitinases)
  1. (biochemistry) Any chitinase that can cleave a chitin molecule at a random point within the its chain Categories (topical): Enzymes Related terms: exochitinase

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for endochitinase meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "endo",
        "3": "chitinase"
      },
      "expansion": "endo- + chitinase",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From endo- + chitinase.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "endochitinases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "endochitinase (plural endochitinases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with endo-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Enzymes",
          "orig": "en:Enzymes",
          "parents": [
            "Proteins",
            "Biomolecules",
            "Biochemistry",
            "Body parts",
            "Organic compounds",
            "Biology",
            "Chemistry",
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "Matter",
            "Sciences",
            "Human",
            "Medicine",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any chitinase that can cleave a chitin molecule at a random point within the its chain"
      ],
      "id": "en-endochitinase-en-noun-6M0gM-nC",
      "links": [
        [
          "biochemistry",
          "biochemistry"
        ],
        [
          "chitinase",
          "chitinase"
        ],
        [
          "chitin",
          "chitin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biochemistry) Any chitinase that can cleave a chitin molecule at a random point within the its chain"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "exochitinase"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biochemistry",
        "biology",
        "chemistry",
        "microbiology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "endochitinase"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "endo",
        "3": "chitinase"
      },
      "expansion": "endo- + chitinase",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From endo- + chitinase.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "endochitinases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "endochitinase (plural endochitinases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "exochitinase"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with endo-",
        "en:Enzymes"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any chitinase that can cleave a chitin molecule at a random point within the its chain"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biochemistry",
          "biochemistry"
        ],
        [
          "chitinase",
          "chitinase"
        ],
        [
          "chitin",
          "chitin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biochemistry) Any chitinase that can cleave a chitin molecule at a random point within the its chain"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biochemistry",
        "biology",
        "chemistry",
        "microbiology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "endochitinase"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.