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dopa

dopa noun: the amino acid dihydroxyphenylalanine that is generated in the liver from tyrosine and then converted into dopamine in the brain.

Noun (1)

dopa (uncountable)

  1. The amino acid dihydroxyphenylalanine that is generated in the liver from tyrosine and then converted into dopamine in the brain.

Noun (2) capitalized: DOPA

DOPA (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of dopa.

Forms of dopa

alternative formDOPA

Origin of dopa

Shortened from dihydroxyphenylalanine.

Words formed from dopa

Questions about dopa

What does dopa mean?
Dopa means the amino acid dihydroxyphenylalanine that is generated in the liver from tyrosine and then converted into dopamine in the brain.
What part of speech is dopa?
Dopa is a noun.

Words near dopa in the dictionary

  1. dooziest
  2. doozy
  3. dop
  4. dop kit
  5. dop kits
  6. dopa
  7. dopability
  8. dopable
  9. DOPAC
  10. dopachrome
  11. dopachromes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dopa (page history and authors); DOPA (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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