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Plural of prion

regular plural

The plural of prion is prions.

Forms of prion

Singularprion /ˈpɹiːɒn/
Pluralprions
Countablecountable

Prions in a sentence

  • I swear I think of prions absurdly more than anyone should.2023 December 3, u/8Jennyx, “What's a fact you wish you didn't know?”, in Reddit, r/AskReddit, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2024. From the entry Roman Empire

Meaning of prion

  1. noun A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
  2. noun A petrel of the genera Pachyptila and Halobaena.

Full definition of prion

Questions about the plural of prion

What is the plural of prion?
The plural of prion is prions.
Is prion countable?
Prion is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prion (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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