amino
/əˈmiːnəʊ/US/əˈminoʊ/
amino adjective: relating to an amine.
Adjective
amino (not comparable)
- Relating to an amine.
Noun
amino (plural aminos)
- The amine functional group.
- An amino acid.
amino meaning in Tamil and Telugu
amino in Tamil
- அமினோ
amino in Telugu
- amino
- ఎమైనో emainō
Examples of amino in a sentence
- The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.
- Aniline has both a phenyl and an amino moiety.
- Furthermore, it is the only macronutrient that supplies us with amino acids, making it essential for survival.
Forms of amino
| plural | aminos |
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Origin of amino
From the prefix amino-, from amine, from ammonia + -ine.
Words formed from amino
- acetylamino
- acylamino
- alkylamino
- allylamino
- aminate
- amino-
- aminoacetone
- aminoacetophenone
- amino acid
- aminoacidic
- aminoacyl
- aminoacyltransferase
- aminoadenosine
- amino alcohol
- amino aldehyde
- aminoaldehyde
- aminoallyl
- aminobenzene
- aminobenzoic acid
- aminobutyric
- amino carbohydrate
- aminocatalysis
- aminochromone
- aminocyclitol
- aminodeoxysugar
- aminodiphosphine
- aminoester
- aminoethane
- aminoethyl
- aminoguanidine
- aminohexanoic acid
- aminohexyl
- aminohydrolase
- aminohydroxylation
- aminoimidazole
- aminoindanol
- aminoindazole
- aminoketone
- aminolevulinic acid
- aminomethane
- aminomethoxy
- aminomethyl
- aminonaphthol
- aminonicotinamide
- aminonitrile
- aminopenicillin
- aminopentyl
- aminophenanthrene
- aminophenyl
- aminophosphine
- aminophosphonate
- aminopropanal
- aminopropanol
- aminopropyl
- aminoquinoline
- aminosalicylic
- aminosiloxydiene
- aminosterol
- amino sugar
- amino-terminal
Phrases with amino
- amino acids
- amino sugars
- amino alcohols
- amino aldehydes
- amino carbohydrates
- essential amino acid
- essential amino acids
- nonessential amino acid
- non-essential amino acid
- nonessential amino acids
- non-essential amino acids
- deduced amino acid sequence
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Words that rhyme with amino
Questions about amino
- What does amino mean?
- Amino means relating to an amine.
- What is amino in Tamil?
- Amino in Tamil is அமினோ. See Amino meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is amino?
- Amino can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce amino?
- Amino is pronounced /əˈmiːnəʊ/ (UK).
Words near amino in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: amino (page history and authors); amino (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఎమైనో (Telugu) (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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