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- Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*polh₁ús
- Ancient Greekπολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)
- Englishpoly-
- GermanPyrimidin
- Englishpyrimidine
- English todaypolypyrimidine
From poly- + pyrimidine.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
polypyrimidine
Today it means: Any of many pyrimidine bases forming a sequence; especially a region of mRNA containing such a sequence which has a function in RNA splicing Full definition →
English pyrimidine ← German Pyrimidin ← Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)