Word.ws English Dictionary

metapeptone

metapeptone noun: an intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.

Noun

metapeptone (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) An intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.

Origin of metapeptone

From meta- + peptone.

Questions about metapeptone

What does metapeptone mean?
Metapeptone means an intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.
What part of speech is metapeptone?
Metapeptone is a noun.

Words near metapeptone in the dictionary

  1. metapelets
  2. metapelite
  3. metapelites
  4. metapelitic
  5. metapeltidium
  6. metapeptone
  7. metaperception
  8. metaperceptions
  9. metaperceptive
  10. metaperceptual
  11. metaperidotite

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: metapeptone (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “metapeptone.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/metapeptone. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.