metabotype

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word metabotype. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word metabotype, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say metabotype in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word metabotype you have here. The definition of the word metabotype will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofmetabotype, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

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, →DOI:
      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