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phycobiloprotein

phycobiloprotein is the misspelling of phycobiliprotein.

Meaning of phycobiliprotein

Noun

phycobiliprotein (countable and uncountable, plural phycobiliproteins)

  1. Any of a class of water-soluble proteins, present in cyanobacteria and certain algae, that capture light energy which is then passed on to chlorophylls during photosynthesis; the most important constituents of the phycobilisomes.

Questions about phycobiloprotein

What is phycobiloprotein the misspelling of?
Phycobiloprotein is the misspelling of phycobiliprotein.

Words near phycobiloprotein in the dictionary

  1. phycobiliproteins
  2. phycobilisome
  3. phycobilisomes
  4. phycobillin
  5. phycobillins
  6. phycobiloprotein
  7. phycobiont
  8. phycobionts
  9. phycochromaceous
  10. phycochrome
  11. phycochromes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phycobiloprotein (page history and authors); phycobiliprotein (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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