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viperidic

viperidic adjective: of, belonging to, or relating to viperids.

Adjective

viperidic (not comparable)

  1. (rare, non-native) Of, belonging to, or relating to viperids.
    • It was also shown that M. corallinus natriuretic peptide is more similar to a natriuretic peptide characterized from the Elapidic snake Dendroaspis angusticeps (Schweitz, 1992) than to the B. jararaca CNP characterized from the viperidic snake Bothrops jararaca (Murayama et al., 1997).1997 November, Paulo Lee Ho, Marcelo Bento Soares, Thomas Maack, Ignacio Gimenez, Giuseppe Puorto, Maria de Fátima Domingues Furtado, Isaias Raw, “Cloning of an Unusual Natriuretic Peptide from the...
    • Thus, 2 elapidic and 13 viperidic venoms were analyzed by basic PAGE, from which characteristic electrophoretic patterns could be obtained (Figure 1A).1998, A.M. Soares, L.H. Anzaloni Pedrosa, M.R.M. Fontes, R.J. Da Silva, J.R. Giglio, “Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis as a tool for the taxonomic identification of snakes from the Elapidae and...

Origin of viperidic

From viperid (“member of the family Viperidae”, noun) + -ic (suffix forming adjectives).

Questions about viperidic

What does viperidic mean?
Viperidic means of, belonging to, or relating to viperids.
What part of speech is viperidic?
Viperidic is an adjective.

Words near viperidic in the dictionary

  1. viperfish
  2. viperfishes
  3. VIPergic
  4. viperian
  5. viperid
  6. viperidic
  7. viperids
  8. viperiform
  9. viperin
  10. viperine
  11. viperines

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