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thymines

thymines is the plural of thymine.

Meaning of thymine

Noun

thymine (countable and uncountable, plural thymines)

  1. A heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione; it pairs with adenine in DNA.
    • Then he found them, the substances that made up the four-letter alphabet in whose language all life is written — adenine and cytosine, guanine and thymine.1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 164

Questions about thymines

What is thymines the plural of?
Thymines is the plural of thymine.

Words near thymines in the dictionary

  1. thymier
  2. thymiest
  3. thymine
  4. thymineless
  5. thyminelessness
  6. thymines
  7. thymitis
  8. thymo-
  9. thymocyte
  10. thymocytes
  11. thymocytic

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