Word.ws English Dictionary

ribophagy

ribophagy noun: the degradation of ribosomes by autophagy.

Noun

ribophagy (uncountable)

  1. The degradation of ribosomes by autophagy.

Origin of ribophagy

From ribo- + -phagy.

Questions about ribophagy

What does ribophagy mean?
Ribophagy means the degradation of ribosomes by autophagy.
What part of speech is ribophagy?
Ribophagy is a noun.

Words near ribophagy in the dictionary

  1. ribonucleotoxin
  2. ribonucleotoxins
  3. ribonulceoprotein
  4. ribooligonucleotide
  5. ribooligonucleotides
  6. ribophagy
  7. ribophorin
  8. ribophorins
  9. ribophosphate
  10. riboplasm
  11. riboplasms

Source and license

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