metabotype

English

Etymology

Short for metabolic type.

Noun

metabotype (plural metabotypes)

1. (biology) A metabolic type; the kind of metabolism that an individual has.
   • 2015 December 8, “Metabolomic Responses of Guard Cells and Mesophyll Cells to Bicarbonate”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0144206:

     Interestingly, we found that these time-resolved metabotypes were discriminated into five distinct clusters.

Verb

metabotype (third-person singular simple present metabotypes, present participle metabotyping, simple past and past participle metabotyped)

1. To identify and classify metabotypes

Related terms

• metabotypic