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phycocyanine

phycocyanine is the alternative form of phycocyanin.

Meaning of phycocyanin

Noun

phycocyanin (countable and uncountable, plural phycocyanins)

  1. A pigment from the light-harvesting phycobiliprotein family, along with allophycocyanin and phycoerythrin, an accessory pigment to chlorophyll.

Forms of phycocyanine

pluralphycocyanines

Questions about phycocyanine

What is phycocyanine the alternative form of?
Phycocyanine is the alternative form of phycocyanin.

Words near phycocyanine in the dictionary

  1. phycochrome
  2. phycochromes
  3. phycocolloid
  4. phycocolloids
  5. phycocyanin
  6. phycocyanine
  7. phycocyanines
  8. phycocyanins
  9. phycocyanobilin
  10. phycocyanobilins
  11. phycodnaviral

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phycocyanine (page history and authors); phycocyanin (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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