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forkhead

forkhead noun: a sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA. Also the euphemistic form of fuckhead.

Noun

forkhead (plural forkheads)

  1. A sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA.
  2. The forked end of a rod in a knuckle joint or similar.
  3. (obsolete) An arrow with a barbed tip.
    • With that at him a quiv'ring dart he threw, / With so fell force, and villeinous despite, / That through his haberjeon the forkehead flew, / And through the linked mayles empierced quite […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Also used as

forkhead is also the euphemistic form of fuckhead.

Forms of forkhead

pluralforkheads

Origin of forkhead

From fork + head.

Questions about forkhead

What does forkhead mean?
Forkhead means a sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA.
What part of speech is forkhead?
Forkhead is a noun.
What is the plural of forkhead?
The plural of forkhead is forkheads.

Words near forkhead in the dictionary

  1. forkend
  2. forker
  3. forkers
  4. forkful
  5. forkfuls
  6. forkhead
  7. forkheads
  8. forkier
  9. forkiest
  10. forkiness
  11. forking

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