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adipocerite

adipocerite is the alternative form of adipocere.

Meaning of adipocere

Noun

adipocere (countable and uncountable, plural adipoceres)

  1. A brown, fatty, waxy substance (fatty acids) that forms on dead animal tissues in response to hydrolysis.
    • In some cases, however, brains outlast all other soft tissues and remain intact for hundreds or thousands of years. […] [Alexandra] Morton-Hayward's experiments suggest the brains endure through a process called molecular cross-linking, in which brain protein remnants and degraded lipids form a...2025, “Advances: Biology: Brain Endurance. Misfolded proteins may preserve brains for millennia”, in Scientific American, volume 332, number 2 (February), pages 10-12
    Synonyms:
    grave wax

Questions about adipocerite

What is adipocerite the alternative form of?
Adipocerite is the alternative form of adipocere.

Words near adipocerite in the dictionary

  1. adipocerating
  2. adipoceration
  3. adipocere
  4. adipoceres
  5. adipoceriform
  6. adipocerite
  7. adipocerous
  8. adipochemokine
  9. adipochemokines
  10. adipocire
  11. adipocires

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adipocerite (page history and authors); adipocere (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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