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hydrophobine

hydrophobine is the alternative form of hydrophobin.

Meaning of hydrophobin

Noun

hydrophobin (plural hydrophobins)

  1. Any of a class of small, cysteine-rich proteins that are expressed only by filamentous fungi, known for their capability of forming a hydrophobic coating on the surface of an object

Forms of hydrophobine

pluralhydrophobines

Questions about hydrophobine

What is hydrophobine the alternative form of?
Hydrophobine is the alternative form of hydrophobin.

Words near hydrophobine in the dictionary

  1. hydrophobically
  2. hydrophobicities
  3. hydrophobicity
  4. hydrophobics
  5. hydrophobin
  6. hydrophobine
  7. hydrophobines
  8. hydrophobins
  9. hydrophobised
  10. hydrophobist
  11. hydrophobists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hydrophobine (page history and authors); hydrophobin (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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