Word.ws English Dictionary

thymoquinone

thymoquinone noun: a monoterpenoid quinone, found in Nigella sativa, that has antioxidant activity.

Noun

thymoquinone (plural thymoquinones)

  1. A monoterpenoid quinone, found in Nigella sativa, that has antioxidant activity

Forms of thymoquinone

pluralthymoquinones

Words formed from thymoquinone

Questions about thymoquinone

What does thymoquinone mean?
Thymoquinone means a monoterpenoid quinone, found in Nigella sativa, that has antioxidant activity.
What part of speech is thymoquinone?
Thymoquinone is a noun.
What is the plural of thymoquinone?
The plural of thymoquinone is thymoquinones.

Words near thymoquinone in the dictionary

  1. thymoprivous
  2. thymoproteasomal
  3. thymoproteasome
  4. thymoproteasomes
  5. thymoquinine
  6. thymoquinone
  7. thymoquinones
  8. thymos
  9. thymosin
  10. thymosins
  11. thymothymectomies

Source and license

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