See prebiotic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for prebiotic meaning in English (6.9kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pre",
"3": "biotic"
},
"expansion": "pre- + biotic",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From pre- + biotic.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "prebiotics",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "prebiotic (plural prebiotics)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "23 36 41",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with pre-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2009, Jo Ann Hattner, Susan Anderes, Gut Insight, page 35",
"text": "The table below includes plant foods we consider to be prebiotic “stars” since they are the foods listed in the scientific literature as sources of prebiotics.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 240",
"text": "Prebiotics are nowhere near as well researched as probiotics, although there are already some sound results pertaining to how they work.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A substance in food that is hard to digest and promotes the growth of beneficial intestinal microorganisms."
],
"id": "en-prebiotic-en-noun-h6R4iXSA",
"links": [
[
"food",
"food"
],
[
"digest",
"digest"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly in the plural) A substance in food that is hard to digest and promotes the growth of beneficial intestinal microorganisms."
],
"tags": [
"in-plural"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "food substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prebiótico"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "food substance",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Präbiotikum"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "food substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prebiotico"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "food substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prebiotyk"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "food substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prebiótico"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "food substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prebiótico"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɹiːbaɪˈɒtɪk/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"prebiotic"
],
"word": "prebiotic"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "prebiotic organic synthesis"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pre",
"3": "biotic"
},
"expansion": "pre- + biotic",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From pre- + biotic.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "prebiotic (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "23 36 41",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with pre-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1986, Herrick Baltscheffsky, Hans Jornvall, Rudolf Rigler, Molecular Evolution of Life, page 43",
"text": "There are three compelling reasons that suggest that the first set of prebiotic coding sequences to be translated were repeats of base oligomers, the numbers of bases in oligomeric units not being multiples of three.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Peter Walde, Laurent Boiteau, Prebiotic Chemistry: From Simple Amphiphiles to Protocell Models",
"text": "As a result, studies of uncoded peptide bond formation are founded in using NCAs as substrates (even when obtained as the reactive species of the non-prebiotic CDI activation) for mimicking prebiotic processes.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Bernard Barbier, Hervé Martin, Jacques Reisse, Lectures in Astrobiology: Vol I",
"text": "The chemistry of cyanoacetylene, HC₃N, can lead in aqueous solution to the prebiotic synthesis of pyrimidines.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Giovanni Occhipinti, Prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life, page 30",
"text": "The amino acids which were formed through prebiotic reactions were surely chiral.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Dumah, Micah System",
"text": "Home to 51 moons, including the prebiotic moon Anafiel, Dumah is a standard hydrogen-helium gas giant with violent surface winds exceeding 1,900 kph.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Theodore R. Johnstone, Boundaries of Evolution",
"text": "Artificial prebiotic experiments were designed to mimic what might have occurred before life appeared.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Before the advent of life."
],
"id": "en-prebiotic-en-adj-cq3pXWio",
"links": [
[
"life",
"life"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "4 60 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 36 41",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with pre-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 65 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 69 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 72 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 57 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 71 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "10 64 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2009, Jo Ann Hattner, Susan Anderes, Gut Insight, page 35",
"text": "The table below includes plant foods we consider to be prebiotic “stars” since they are the foods listed in the scientific literature as sources of prebiotics.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Teresa M. Paeschke, William R. Aimutis, Nondigestible Carbohydrates and Digestive Health",
"text": "Evidence of the prebiotic properties of polydextrose (PDX), resistant maltodextrin (RMD), and other soluble fiber sources are slowly emerging, but the body of evidence is small compared to the gold standard of fructo oligosaccharides (FOS) and inulin.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Polysaccharides—Advances in Research and Application",
"text": "Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Reading, “The ability to mediate a prebiotic modulation of gut microbiota has recently been suggested to have an inverse correlation with risk of cardiometabolic disease...\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Not digestible, but beneficial."
],
"id": "en-prebiotic-en-adj-uRT67ATs",
"links": [
[
"digestible",
"digestible"
],
[
"beneficial",
"beneficial"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(of a food) Not digestible, but beneficial."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a food"
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɹiːbaɪˈɒtɪk/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"prebiotic"
],
"word": "prebiotic"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 4-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with pre-",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pre",
"3": "biotic"
},
"expansion": "pre- + biotic",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From pre- + biotic.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "prebiotics",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "prebiotic (plural prebiotics)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2009, Jo Ann Hattner, Susan Anderes, Gut Insight, page 35",
"text": "The table below includes plant foods we consider to be prebiotic “stars” since they are the foods listed in the scientific literature as sources of prebiotics.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 240",
"text": "Prebiotics are nowhere near as well researched as probiotics, although there are already some sound results pertaining to how they work.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A substance in food that is hard to digest and promotes the growth of beneficial intestinal microorganisms."
],
"links": [
[
"food",
"food"
],
[
"digest",
"digest"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly in the plural) A substance in food that is hard to digest and promotes the growth of beneficial intestinal microorganisms."
],
"tags": [
"in-plural"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɹiːbaɪˈɒtɪk/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "food substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prebiótico"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "food substance",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Präbiotikum"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "food substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prebiotico"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "food substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prebiotyk"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "food substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prebiótico"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "food substance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prebiótico"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"prebiotic"
],
"word": "prebiotic"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 4-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with pre-",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "prebiotic organic synthesis"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pre",
"3": "biotic"
},
"expansion": "pre- + biotic",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From pre- + biotic.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "prebiotic (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1986, Herrick Baltscheffsky, Hans Jornvall, Rudolf Rigler, Molecular Evolution of Life, page 43",
"text": "There are three compelling reasons that suggest that the first set of prebiotic coding sequences to be translated were repeats of base oligomers, the numbers of bases in oligomeric units not being multiples of three.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Peter Walde, Laurent Boiteau, Prebiotic Chemistry: From Simple Amphiphiles to Protocell Models",
"text": "As a result, studies of uncoded peptide bond formation are founded in using NCAs as substrates (even when obtained as the reactive species of the non-prebiotic CDI activation) for mimicking prebiotic processes.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Bernard Barbier, Hervé Martin, Jacques Reisse, Lectures in Astrobiology: Vol I",
"text": "The chemistry of cyanoacetylene, HC₃N, can lead in aqueous solution to the prebiotic synthesis of pyrimidines.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Giovanni Occhipinti, Prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life, page 30",
"text": "The amino acids which were formed through prebiotic reactions were surely chiral.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Dumah, Micah System",
"text": "Home to 51 moons, including the prebiotic moon Anafiel, Dumah is a standard hydrogen-helium gas giant with violent surface winds exceeding 1,900 kph.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Theodore R. Johnstone, Boundaries of Evolution",
"text": "Artificial prebiotic experiments were designed to mimic what might have occurred before life appeared.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Before the advent of life."
],
"links": [
[
"life",
"life"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2009, Jo Ann Hattner, Susan Anderes, Gut Insight, page 35",
"text": "The table below includes plant foods we consider to be prebiotic “stars” since they are the foods listed in the scientific literature as sources of prebiotics.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Teresa M. Paeschke, William R. Aimutis, Nondigestible Carbohydrates and Digestive Health",
"text": "Evidence of the prebiotic properties of polydextrose (PDX), resistant maltodextrin (RMD), and other soluble fiber sources are slowly emerging, but the body of evidence is small compared to the gold standard of fructo oligosaccharides (FOS) and inulin.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Polysaccharides—Advances in Research and Application",
"text": "Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Reading, “The ability to mediate a prebiotic modulation of gut microbiota has recently been suggested to have an inverse correlation with risk of cardiometabolic disease...\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Not digestible, but beneficial."
],
"links": [
[
"digestible",
"digestible"
],
[
"beneficial",
"beneficial"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(of a food) Not digestible, but beneficial."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a food"
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɹiːbaɪˈɒtɪk/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"prebiotic"
],
"word": "prebiotic"
}
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.