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tomatinase

tomatinase noun: an enzyme that can degrade tomatine, found in some microbes.

Noun

tomatinase (countable and uncountable, plural tomatinases)

  1. An enzyme that can degrade tomatine, found in some microbes.

Forms of tomatinase

pluraltomatinases

Origin of tomatinase

From tomatine + -ase.

Questions about tomatinase

What does tomatinase mean?
Tomatinase means an enzyme that can degrade tomatine, found in some microbes.
What part of speech is tomatinase?
Tomatinase is a noun.
What is the plural of tomatinase?
The plural of tomatinase is tomatinases.

Words near tomatinase in the dictionary

  1. tomatidine
  2. tomatillo
  3. tomatilloes
  4. tomatillos
  5. Tomatin
  6. tomatinase
  7. tomatinases
  8. tomatine
  9. tomatines
  10. tomatini
  11. tomatinis

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