Word.ws English Dictionary

polymannuronic

polymannuronic adjective: composed of a polymer of mannuronic acid.

Adjective

polymannuronic (not comparable)

  1. Composed of a polymer of mannuronic acid
    • While AlgE4 can produce polyalternating structures from polymannuronic alginates, AlgE6 can epimerize both polymannuronic and polyalternating structures to form polyguluronic alginates.2015 October 24, “Energy Landscape of Alginate-Epimerase Interactions Assessed by Optical Tweezers and Atomic Force Microscopy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of polymannuronic

From poly- + mannuronic.

Questions about polymannuronic

What does polymannuronic mean?
Polymannuronic means composed of a polymer of mannuronic acid.
What part of speech is polymannuronic?
Polymannuronic is an adjective.

Words near polymannuronic in the dictionary

  1. polymaltoses
  2. polymania
  3. polymannose
  4. polymannuronate
  5. polymannuronates
  6. polymannuronic
  7. polymastia
  8. polymastic
  9. polymastiid
  10. polymastiids
  11. polymastism

Source and license

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