Plural of enzyme
regular plural
The plural of enzyme is enzymes.
Forms of enzyme
| Singular | enzyme /ˈɛn.zaɪm/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | enzymes |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Enzymes in a sentence
- Spiders predigest their food by injecting enzymes into their victims.From the entry predigest
- Some proteins have a primary function of acting as enzymes, but moonlight by carrying out secondary roles such as signal transduction or transcriptional regulation.From the entry moonlight
- The catalytic site of these enzymes contains acatalytic triade, serine, histidine and glutamine.2023, Surya Nandan Meena, Vinod Nandre, Kisan Kodam, Ram Swaroop Meena, editors, New Horizons in Natural Compound Research (Progress in…. From the entry acatalytic
- They squirt out enzymes to break down nearby organic material and then soak it in.2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times. From the entry squirt
- The current study investigates autoantibodies against steroid synthesis enzymes in dogs with spontaneous hypoadrenocorticism.2015 December 1, “Autoantibodies against Cytochrome P450 Side-Chain Cleavage Enzyme in Dogs ( Canis lupus familiaris ) Affected with…. From the entry investigate
Meaning of enzyme
- noun A biomolecule that catalyses a biological chemical reaction: either a globular protein with this function or an RNA molecule with this function.
- noun The protein type specifically.
- noun Leavened bread, as opposed to azyme.
Questions about the plural of enzyme
- What is the plural of enzyme?
- The plural of enzyme is enzymes.
- Is enzyme countable?
- Enzyme is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: enzyme (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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