guanine

 

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• guanin (dated)

From guano +‎ -ine. Guanine was named by the German chemist Julius Bodo Unger in 1846 who isolated it from guano.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɑː.niːn/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːniːn

guanine (plural guanines)

1. (chemistry) A substance first obtained from guano; it is a nucleic base and pairs with cytosine in DNA and RNA (by means of three hydrogen bonds).

   Hypernyms: nucleobase, purine

   Coordinate terms: adenine, cytosine, thymine, uracil

   • 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 164:

     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.

• inosine (a nucleobase susbstitute for guanine)

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Guanine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “guanine”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

• Guinean, anguine

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guanine f (plural guanines)

1. guanine

• “guanine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.