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glycogeny

glycogeny is the archaic form of glycogenesis.

Meaning of glycogenesis

Noun

glycogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural glycogeneses)

  1. The biosynthesis of a sugar
  2. The synthesis of glycogen from glucose

Questions about glycogeny

What is glycogeny the archaic form of?
Glycogeny is the archaic form of glycogenesis.

Words near glycogeny in the dictionary

  1. glycogenosis
  2. glycogenosome
  3. glycogenosomes
  4. glycogenotic
  5. glycogens
  6. glycogeny
  7. glycoglycerolipid
  8. glycoglycerolipids
  9. glycogroup
  10. glycogroups
  11. glycohaemoglobin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glycogeny (page history and authors); glycogenesis (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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