Word.ws English Dictionary

glycophorin

glycophorin noun: a sialoglycoprotein of the membrane of red blood cells.

Noun

glycophorin (countable and uncountable, plural glycophorins)

  1. a sialoglycoprotein of the membrane of red blood cells.

Forms of glycophorin

pluralglycophorins

Words formed from glycophorin

Questions about glycophorin

What does glycophorin mean?
Glycophorin means a sialoglycoprotein of the membrane of red blood cells.
What part of speech is glycophorin?
Glycophorin is a noun.
What is the plural of glycophorin?
The plural of glycophorin is glycophorins.

Words near glycophorin in the dictionary

  1. glycopeptidomimetics
  2. glycophagy
  3. glycophenotype
  4. glycophenotypes
  5. glycophenotypic
  6. glycophorin
  7. glycophorins
  8. glycophosphatidylinositol
  9. glycophosphatidylinositols
  10. glycophosphoinositol
  11. glycophosphoinositols

Source and license

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