Word.ws English Dictionary

chondrin

chondrin noun: a colourless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance resembling gelatin, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water.

Noun

chondrin (countable and uncountable, plural chondrins)

  1. A colourless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance resembling gelatin, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water.

Forms of chondrin

pluralchondrins

Origin of chondrin

By surface analysis, chondr- + -in.

Words formed from chondrin

Questions about chondrin

What does chondrin mean?
Chondrin means a colourless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance resembling gelatin, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water.
What part of speech is chondrin?
Chondrin is a noun.
What is the plural of chondrin?
The plural of chondrin is chondrins.

Words near chondrin in the dictionary

  1. chondrify
  2. chondrifying
  3. chondrigen
  4. chondrigenous
  5. chondrillasterol
  6. chondrin
  7. chondrinid
  8. chondrinids
  9. chondrins
  10. chondrio-
  11. chondriocont

Source and license

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