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lignans

lignans is the plural of lignan.

Meaning of lignan

Noun

lignan (plural lignans)

  1. Any of a class of phenylpropanoid (propylbenzene) type of molecules found in essentially all plants, generally dimeric or higher order, and produced by secondary metabolic pathways branching off of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis, in some cases having associated antioxidant or estrogenic (phytoestrogenic) activities; having in common with lignin the phenylpropanoid monomers, where lignin is a random oxidative polymerization of the same

Questions about lignans

What is lignans the plural of?
Lignans is the plural of lignan.

Words near lignans in the dictionary

  1. lignan
  2. lignanamide
  3. lignanamides
  4. lignane
  5. lignanes
  6. lignans
  7. lignase
  8. lignases
  9. ligne
  10. ligne claire
  11. lignel

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