thymine

English

Etymology

thymic +‎ -ine

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθaɪmɪn/

Noun

thymine (countable and uncountable, plural thymines)

1. (organic chemistry, genetics) A heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione; it pairs with adenine in DNA.

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胸腺嘧啶 (zh) (xiōngxiànmìdìng)

• Czech: thymin m
• Esperanto: timino
• Finnish: tymiini (fi)
• French: thymine (fr) f
• German: Thymin (de) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: timin
• Icelandic: týmín n
• Italian: timina (it) f
• Japanese: チミン (ja) (chimin)
• Polish: tymina f
• Portuguese: timina f
• Russian: тими́н (ru) m (timín)