tyrosine
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”)).
Noun
[edit]tyrosine (countable and uncountable, plural tyrosines)
- (biochemistry) A nonessential amino acid 2-amino-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propanoic acid found in most animal proteins, especially casein
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[edit]nonessential amino acid
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[edit]French
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Noun
[edit]tyrosine f (plural tyrosines)
Further reading
[edit]- “tyrosine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.