Word.ws English Dictionary

calyculin

calyculin noun: any of a class of serine/threonine protein phosphatase inhibitors originally isolated from the marine sponge Discodermia calyx.

Noun

calyculin (plural calyculins)

  1. Any of a class of serine/threonine protein phosphatase inhibitors originally isolated from the marine sponge Discodermia calyx.

Forms of calyculin

pluralcalyculins

Origin of calyculin

From calyc- + -ule + -in.

Questions about calyculin

What does calyculin mean?
Calyculin means any of a class of serine/threonine protein phosphatase inhibitors originally isolated from the marine sponge Discodermia calyx.
What part of speech is calyculin?
Calyculin is a noun.
What is the plural of calyculin?
The plural of calyculin is calyculins.

Words near calyculin in the dictionary

  1. calyculated
  2. calyculately
  3. calycule
  4. calycules
  5. calyculi
  6. calyculin
  7. calyculins
  8. calyculus
  9. Calydon
  10. Calydonian
  11. Calydonian Boar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: calyculin (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: “calyculin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/calyculin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.