metabolite
/mɪˈtæbəlaɪt/
metabolite noun: any substance produced by, or taking part in, a metabolic reaction.
Noun
metabolite (plural metabolites)
- Any substance produced by, or taking part in, a metabolic reaction.
- Cannabis and some of its metabolites, for example, persist in the fat stores of the body for several weeks after a single dose.2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 33
- In addition to looking at gene expression, Bozek and her colleagues analyzed levels of metabolites, a diverse group of small molecules that includes sugars, nucleic acids and neurotransmitters. Many metabolites are either necessary for metabolism or produced by it.2015, Ferris Jabr, How Humans Ended Up With Freakishly Huge Brains Wired
metabolite meaning in Tamil, Malay and Indonesian
metabolite in Tamil
- வளர்சிதை மாற்றத்தில் உருவான பொருள், ஆக்கச்சிதைமாற்றநம், வளர்சிதை வினைமாற்ற பொருள்
metabolite in Malay
- any substance produced by, or taking part in, a metabolic reaction
- bahantara
metabolite in Indonesian
- any substance produced by, or taking part in, a metabolic reaction
- metabolit
Examples of metabolite in a sentence
- Recent work from Professor Paul Glue’s team in New Zealand used noribogaine, the active metabolite of ibogaine.
- Samples were dried using a vacufuge, and the metabolites were redissolved in 50% methanol.
- Similar to topramezone, herbicides such as chlorotoluron and metflurazon can be N-demethylated to their primary metabolites.
Forms of metabolite
| plural | metabolites |
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Origin of metabolite
From metabolism + -ite.
Words formed from metabolite
- antimetabolite
- biometabolite
- cometabolite
- eigenmetabolite
- endometabolite
- epimetabolite
- exometabolite
- hydroxymetabolite
- immunometabolite
- metabolitic
- metabolomics
- micrometabolite
- multimetabolite
- neurometabolite
- oncometabolite
- phosphometabolite
- photometabolite
- phytometabolite
- primary metabolite
- radiometabolite
- secondary metabolite
- selenometabolite
- sialometabolite
Questions about metabolite
- What does metabolite mean?
- Metabolite means any substance produced by, or taking part in, a metabolic reaction.
- What is metabolite in Tamil?
- Metabolite in Tamil is வளர்சிதை மாற்றத்தில் உருவான பொருள், ஆக்கச்சிதைமாற்றநம், வளர்சிதை வினைமாற்ற பொருள். See Metabolite meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is metabolite?
- Metabolite is a noun.
- How do you pronounce metabolite?
- Metabolite is pronounced /mɪˈtæbəlaɪt/.
- What is the plural of metabolite?
- The plural of metabolite is metabolites.
Words near metabolite in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: metabolite (page history and authors); metabolite (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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