tyrosine

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”) +‎ -ine.

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

Synonyms

• Tyr

Translations

nonessential amino acid

• Catalan: tirosina f
• Czech: tyrosin m, tyrozin m
• Esperanto: tirozino
• Finnish: tyrosiini
• French: tyrosine (fr) f
• German: Tyrosin (de) n
• Greek: τυροσίνη (el) f (tyrosíni)
• Hungarian: tirozin (hu)
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• Ido: tirozino (io)
• Japanese: チロシン (chiroshin)
• Polish: tyrozyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: tirosina f
• Romanian: tirozină (ro) f
• Russian: тирози́н (ru) m (tirozín)
• Spanish: tirosina f
• Swedish: tyrosin (sv)

Anagrams

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

tyrosine f (plural tyrosines)

1. tyrosine

Further reading

• “tyrosine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.