Word.ws English Dictionary

presqualene

presqualene noun: a metabolic precursor of squalene composed of two farnesyl moieties.

Noun

presqualene (uncountable)

  1. A metabolic precursor of squalene composed of two farnesyl moieties

Origin of presqualene

From pre- + squalene.

Questions about presqualene

What does presqualene mean?
Presqualene means a metabolic precursor of squalene composed of two farnesyl moieties.
What part of speech is presqualene?
Presqualene is a noun.

Words near presqualene in the dictionary

  1. presprinkle
  2. presprinkled
  3. presprinkles
  4. presprinkling
  5. prespun
  6. presqualene
  7. Presque Isle
  8. Presque Isle County
  9. presque vu
  10. press
  11. press agencies

Source and license

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