Word.ws English Dictionary

piggyBac

piggyBac noun: a transposon used in genetic engineering.

Noun

piggyBac (uncountable)

  1. A transposon used in genetic engineering

Origin of piggyBac

piggyback + an abbreviated form of baculovirus (?)

Questions about piggyBac

What does piggyBac mean?
PiggyBac means a transposon used in genetic engineering.
What part of speech is piggyBac?
PiggyBac is a noun.

Words near piggyBac in the dictionary

  1. piggy-backs
  2. piggy-wig
  3. piggy-wiggies
  4. piggy-wiggy
  5. piggy-wigs
  6. piggyBac
  7. piggyback
  8. piggyback plant
  9. piggyback plants
  10. piggyback tax
  11. piggybacked

Source and license

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