Meanings
adjectivehexaphosphorylated (not comparable)
- not comparablebiochemistryphosphorylated with six units of phosphoric acid
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*swéḱs
- Proto-Hellenic*hwéks
- Ancient Greekἕξ (héx)
- Ancient Greekἑξα- (hexa-)
- Latinhexa-
- Englishhexa-
- Englishphosphorylated
- Englishhexaphosphorylated
From hexa- + phosphorylated.
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