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carboxyesterase

carboxyesterase is the alternative form of carboxylesterase.

Meaning of carboxylesterase

Noun

carboxylesterase (plural carboxylesterases)

  1. Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a carboxylic ester

Forms of carboxyesterase

pluralcarboxyesterases

Questions about carboxyesterase

What is carboxyesterase the alternative form of?
Carboxyesterase is the alternative form of carboxylesterase.

Words near carboxyesterase in the dictionary

  1. carboxydotrophic
  2. carboxydotrophs
  3. carboxydotrophy
  4. carboxyeosin
  5. carboxyeosins
  6. carboxyesterase
  7. carboxyesterases
  8. carboxyethyl
  9. carboxyfluorescein
  10. carboxyfluoroscein
  11. carboxyfullerene

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carboxyesterase (page history and authors); carboxylesterase (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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