Etymology

trunkamide

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Today it means: Any of a group of prenylated cyclopeptides related to the patellamides Full definition →

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Coined by Carroll et al. in 1996, after Little Trunk Reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef, renamed Walker Reef in 2011.

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