forkhead

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noun

A sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA.

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Meanings

nounforkhead (plural forkheads)

plural forkheads

  1. biochemistryA sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA.
  2. The forked end of a rod in a knuckle joint or similar.
  3. obsoleteAn arrow with a barbed tip.

    With that at him a quiv'ring dart he threw, / With so fell force, and villeinous despite, / That through his haberjeon the forkehead flew, / And through the linked mayles empierced quite […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  4. euphemisticminced oathEuphemistic form of fuckhead.

Origin

From fork + head.

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APA

forkhead. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forkhead

MLA

“forkhead.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forkhead. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “forkhead,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forkhead.

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