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resilin

resilin noun: an elastic protein found in the exoskeletons of insects, facilitating, for example, folding wings or jumping relatively great distances.

Noun

resilin (uncountable)

  1. An elastic protein found in the exoskeletons of insects, facilitating, for example, folding wings or jumping relatively great distances.

Questions about resilin

What does resilin mean?
Resilin means an elastic protein found in the exoskeletons of insects, facilitating, for example, folding wings or jumping relatively great distances.
What part of speech is resilin?
Resilin is a noun.

Words near resilin in the dictionary

  1. resiliency
  2. resilient
  3. resiliently
  4. resilifer
  5. resilifers
  6. resilin
  7. resiling
  8. resiliometer
  9. resiliometers
  10. resilition
  11. resilitions

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