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metabotype

metabotype noun: a metabolic type; the kind of metabolism that an individual has.

Noun

metabotype (plural metabotypes)

  1. A metabolic type; the kind of metabolism that an individual has.
    • Interestingly, we found that these time-resolved metabotypes were discriminated into five distinct clusters.2015 December 8, “Metabolomic Responses of Guard Cells and Mesophyll Cells to Bicarbonate”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Verb

metabotype (third-person singular simple present metabotypes, present participle metabotyping, simple past and past participle metabotyped)

  1. To identify and classify metabotypes

Forms of metabotype

Noun
pluralmetabotypes
Verb
third-person singular presentmetabotypes
present participlemetabotyping
past participlemetabotyped
pastmetabotyped

Origin of metabotype

Short for metabolic type.

Questions about metabotype

What does metabotype mean?
Metabotype means a metabolic type; the kind of metabolism that an individual has.
What part of speech is metabotype?
Metabotype can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of metabotype?
The plural of metabotype is metabotypes.

Words near metabotype in the dictionary

  1. metaborite
  2. metabosensitive
  3. metabosensory
  4. metabotrophic
  5. metabotropic
  6. metabotype
  7. metabotypes
  8. metabotypic
  9. metabotyping
  10. metabranchial
  11. metabutoxycaine

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