Word.ws English Dictionary

astacin

astacin noun: astaxanthin.

Noun

astacin (countable and uncountable, plural astacins)

  1. astaxanthin
  2. Any of a group of endopeptidases containing a motif that binds zinc

Forms of astacin

pluralastacins

Words formed from astacin

Questions about astacin

What does astacin mean?
Astacin means astaxanthin.
What part of speech is astacin?
Astacin is a noun.
What is the plural of astacin?
The plural of astacin is astacins.

Words near astacin in the dictionary

  1. astacein
  2. astacene
  3. astaciculture
  4. astacid
  5. astacids
  6. astacin
  7. astacins
  8. Astacio
  9. Astacios
  10. astacological
  11. astacologist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: astacin (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “astacin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/astacin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.