citosina
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Galician
Noun
citosina f (uncountable)
Italian
Etymology
By surface analysis, cito- + -ina.
Noun
citosina f (plural citosine)
Anagrams
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ci‧to‧si‧na
Noun
citosina f (uncountable)
- (biochemistry) cytosine (a base which appears in DNA)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Cytosin, equivalent to cito- + -osa + -ina.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θitoˈsina/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /sitoˈsina/
- Rhymes: -ina
- Syllabification: ci‧to‧si‧na
Noun
citosina f (plural citosinas)
- (organic chemistry) cytosine
- Hypernym: pirimidina
- Coordinate terms: timina, uracilo
Further reading
- “citosina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10