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forkheads

forkheads is the plural of forkhead.

Meaning of forkhead

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

Questions about forkheads

What is forkheads the plural of?
Forkheads is the plural of forkhead.

Words near forkheads in the dictionary

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

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