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cavins

cavins is the plural of cavin.

Meaning of cavin

Noun (1)

cavin (plural cavins)

  1. A hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place.
    • Having a sufficient Knowledge of the several Parts of the Fortification, by means of Spies, Deserters, Prisoners, and from printed or drawn Plans, The Nature of the Ground about the Place must be well examined and observed, whether there are any hollow Ways, or Cavins, by means of which the...1747, John Muller, The Attack and Defence of Fortify'd Places, page 29

Noun (2)

cavin

  1. A type of protein that is involved in forming the caveola of many vertebrate cells.
    • The observation that lipid rafts and caveolae were highly enriched in PS in the cytoplasmic leaflet of the membrane (Pike et al. 2002) nicely dovetails with recent findings that all cavin proteins that are required for caveola biogenesis bind PS.2011, Ivan R. Nabi, Cellular Domains, page 46

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Proper noun capitalized: Cavins

Cavins

  1. (plural) plural of Cavin

Questions about cavins

What is cavins the plural of?
Cavins is the plural of cavin.
What part of speech is cavins?
Cavins is a proper noun.

Words near cavins in the dictionary

  1. Cavina
  2. caving
  3. caving in
  4. caving out
  5. cavings
  6. cavins
  7. Cavinte
  8. Cavinti
  9. cavioid
  10. cavioids
  11. caviomorph

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