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amphiphylic

amphiphylic is the misspelling of amphiphilic.

amphiphylic is the misspelling of amphiphytic.

Meaning of amphiphilic

Adjective

amphiphilic (comparative more amphiphilic, superlative most amphiphilic)

  1. Being a detergent: having both hydrophilic and hydrophobic (or lipophilic) groups.
    • Sequential living polymerizations of hydrophilic and hydrophobic vinyl ethers from these trifunctional initiators give amphiphilic triarmed block copolymers where the hydrophilic segments may be placed either inner or outer layer of the three arms.1997, Hatada, Macromolecular Design of Polymeric Materials, →ISBN, page 45
  2. Having one surface consisting of hydrophilic amino acids and the opposite surface consisting of hydrophobic (or lipophilic) ones.

Meaning of amphiphytic

Adjective

amphiphytic (not comparable)

  1. Growing on the edges of water or wetlands, and therefore sometimes submerged.

Questions about amphiphylic

What is amphiphylic the misspelling of?
Amphiphylic is the misspelling of amphiphilic.

Words near amphiphylic in the dictionary

  1. amphiphilicities
  2. amphiphilicity
  3. amphiphillic
  4. amphiphloic
  5. amphiphobic
  6. amphiphylic
  7. amphiphysin
  8. amphiphysins
  9. amphiphyte
  10. amphiphytes
  11. amphiphytic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amphiphylic (page history and authors); amphiphilic (page history and authors); amphiphytic (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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