Word.ws English Dictionary

phenoloxidases

phenoloxidases is the plural of phenoloxidase.

Meaning of phenoloxidase

Noun

phenoloxidase (plural phenoloxidases)

  1. An enzyme which catalyzes phenol oxidation, and which is often involved in melanization processes
    • In one widely accepted model, the oxidation of catechols (o-diphenols) to o-quinones by cuticular phenoloxidase takes place and then these quinones diffuse into the cuticle […]1991, Gregory W. Narr, Nicholas Cohen, Phylogenesis of Immune Functions, →ISBN, page 48

Questions about phenoloxidases

What is phenoloxidases the plural of?
Phenoloxidases is the plural of phenoloxidase.

Words near phenoloxidases in the dictionary

  1. phenologies
  2. phenologist
  3. phenologists
  4. phenology
  5. phenoloxidase
  6. phenoloxidases
  7. phenoloxydase
  8. phenolphthalein
  9. phenolphthaleins
  10. phenolphthalin
  11. phenolphthalins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: phenoloxidases (page history and authors); phenoloxidase (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: “phenoloxidases.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/phenoloxidases. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.