Word.ws English Dictionary

deethylase

deethylase noun: any enzyme that catalyses the removal of an ethyl group from a compound.

Noun

deethylase (plural deethylases)

  1. Any enzyme that catalyses the removal of an ethyl group from a compound

Forms of deethylase

pluraldeethylases

Origin of deethylase

From de- + ethyl + -ase.

Questions about deethylase

What does deethylase mean?
Deethylase means any enzyme that catalyses the removal of an ethyl group from a compound.
What part of speech is deethylase?
Deethylase is a noun.
What is the plural of deethylase?
The plural of deethylase is deethylases.

Words near deethylase in the dictionary

  1. deesterified
  2. deesterifies
  3. deesterify
  4. deesterifying
  5. deet
  6. deethylase
  7. deethylases
  8. deethylation
  9. deethylations
  10. deetiolated
  11. deetiolation

Source and license

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