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nucleocide

nucleocide is the misspelling of nucleoside.

Meaning of nucleoside

Noun

nucleoside (plural nucleosides)

  1. an organic molecule in which a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (or nucleobase), which can be either a double-ringed purine or a single-ringed pyrimidine, is covalently attached to a five-carbon pentose sugar (deoxyribose in DNA or ribose in RNA). When the phosphate group is covalently attached to the pentose sugar, it forms a nucleotide.

Questions about nucleocide

What is nucleocide the misspelling of?
Nucleocide is the misspelling of nucleoside.

Words near nucleocide in the dictionary

  1. nucleobranchs
  2. nucleocapsid
  3. nucleocapsids
  4. nucleocentric
  5. nucleocentrosomal
  6. nucleocide
  7. nucleocomplex
  8. nucleocomplexes
  9. nucleoconch
  10. nucleoconches
  11. nucleoconchs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nucleocide (page history and authors); nucleoside (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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