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phycobilins

phycobilins is the plural of phycobilin.

Meaning of phycobilin

Noun

phycobilin (plural phycobilins)

  1. Any of a group of bilins (pigments derived from porphyrins) found in some photosynthetic algae; they are open-chain tetrapyrroles related to mammalian bile pigments.

Questions about phycobilins

What is phycobilins the plural of?
Phycobilins is the plural of phycobilin.

Words near phycobilins in the dictionary

  1. phycites
  2. phycitid
  3. phycitids
  4. phyco-
  5. phycobilin
  6. phycobilins
  7. phycobiliprotein
  8. phycobiliproteins
  9. phycobilisome
  10. phycobilisomes
  11. phycobillin

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