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bursicons

bursicons is the plural of bursicon.

Meaning of bursicon

Noun

bursicon (countable and uncountable, plural bursicons)

  1. A heterodimeric protein that is an insect hormone which mediates tanning in the cuticle of adult flies

Questions about bursicons

What is bursicons the plural of?
Bursicons is the plural of bursicon.

Words near bursicons in the dictionary

  1. Burseys
  2. Burshtyn
  3. bursicle
  4. bursicles
  5. bursicon
  6. bursicons
  7. bursiculate
  8. bursid
  9. bursids
  10. bursiform
  11. bursitides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bursicons (page history and authors); bursicon (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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