Meanings
nounxanthosine (usually uncountable, plural xanthosines)
plural xanthosines
- uncountableusuallychemistryA nucleoside derived from xanthine and ribose.
Xanthosine, the initial substrate of purine alkaloid synthesis, is supplied by at least four different pathways […]
2010, Bertil B. Fredholm, Methylxanthines
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