Word.ws English Dictionary

phosphoenolpyruvate

phosphoenolpyruvate noun: a carboxylic acid, with the chemical formula C₃H₅O₆P, derived from pyruvate and an intermediate in glycolysis and gluconeogenesis.

phosphoenolpyruvate: a carboxylic acid, with the chemical formula C₃H₅O₆P, derived from pyruvate and an intermediate in...
Image: Fvasconcellos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

phosphoenolpyruvate (usually uncountable, plural phosphoenolpyruvates, abbreviation PEP)

  1. (usually) A carboxylic acid, with the chemical formula C₃H₅O₆P, derived from pyruvate and an intermediate in glycolysis and gluconeogenesis.

Synonyms of phosphoenolpyruvate

Forms of phosphoenolpyruvate

pluralphosphoenolpyruvates
abbreviationPEP

Origin of phosphoenolpyruvate

From phosphoenol + pyruvate.

Phrases with phosphoenolpyruvate

Questions about phosphoenolpyruvate

What does phosphoenolpyruvate mean?
Phosphoenolpyruvate means a carboxylic acid, with the chemical formula C₃H₅O₆P, derived from pyruvate and an intermediate in glycolysis and gluconeogenesis.
What part of speech is phosphoenolpyruvate?
Phosphoenolpyruvate is a noun.
What is the plural of phosphoenolpyruvate?
The plural of phosphoenolpyruvate is phosphoenolpyruvates.

Words near phosphoenolpyruvate in the dictionary

  1. phosphodomains
  2. phosphodonor
  3. phosphodonors
  4. phosphoellenbergerite
  5. phosphoenol
  6. phosphoenolpyruvate
  7. phosphoenolpyruvate mutase
  8. phosphoenolpyruvates
  9. phosphoenolpyruvic acid
  10. phosphoenols
  11. phosphoenoylpyruvate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: phosphoenolpyruvate (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: “phosphoenolpyruvate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/phosphoenolpyruvate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.