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ligases

ligases is the plural of ligase.

Meaning of ligase

Noun

ligase (plural ligases)

  1. Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the binding of two molecules; synthetase.
    • The glue is an enzyme called ligase, which stitches together loose sentences of DNA whenever it comes across them.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 244

Proper noun capitalized: Ligases

Ligases

  1. (plural) plural of Ligas

Phrases with ligases

Questions about ligases

What is ligases the plural of?
Ligases is the plural of ligase.
What part of speech is ligases?
Ligases is a proper noun.

Words near ligases in the dictionary

  1. Ligang
  2. Ligao
  3. Ligas
  4. ligase
  5. ligased
  6. ligases
  7. ligatable
  8. ligate
  9. ligated
  10. ligates
  11. ligating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ligases (page history and authors); Ligases (page history and authors); ligase (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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