"tyrosine" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tyrosines [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”) + -ine; surface analysis is nearly, although not quite, tyro- + -ine (i.e., semantically valid although morphologically amiss; tyro- itself is derived from Ancient Greek τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”)). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|τῡρός||cheese}} Ancient Greek τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”), {{suffix|en||ine}} + -ine, {{confix|en|tyro|ine}} tyro- + -ine, {{uder|en|grc|τῡρός||cheese}} Ancient Greek τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tyrosine (countable and uncountable, plural tyrosines)
  1. (biochemistry) A nonessential amino acid 2-amino-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propanoic acid found in most animal proteins, especially casein Wikipedia link: tyrosine Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Amino acids Synonyms: Tyr Translations (nonessential amino acid): tirosina [feminine] (Catalan), 酪氨酸 (lào'ānsuān, luò'ānsuān) (Chinese Mandarin), tyrosin [masculine] (Czech), tyrozin [masculine] (Czech), tyrosine [neuter] (Dutch), tirozino (Esperanto), tyrosiini (Finnish), tyrosine [feminine] (French), Tyrosin [neuter] (German), τυροσίνη (tyrosíni) [feminine] (Greek), tirozin (Hungarian), tirozino (Ido), tirosina [feminine] (Italian), チロシン (chiroshin) (Japanese), tyrozyna [feminine] (Polish), tirosina [feminine] (Portuguese), tirozină [feminine] (Romanian), тирози́н (tirozín) [masculine] (Russian), tirosina [feminine] (Spanish), tyrosin (Swedish)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.