guanine en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree Quechua wanubor. Spanish guanobor. English guano Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English guanine From guano + -ine. Guanine was named by the German chemist Julius Bodo Unger in 1846 who isolated it from guano.
Meanings
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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).
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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| guanines | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| guanin | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic |
Coordinates
uracil · thymine · adenine · cytosine
Deriveds
guanase · methylguanine · isoguanine · pentaguanine · azaguanine · deoxyguanine · benzylguanine · epiguanine · thioguanine · tioguanine · alkylguanine · oligoguanine · oxoguanine · hydroxyguanine · polyguanine
Hypernyms
Relateds
guanosine · inosine · guanylic acid · guanylate
Translations (17)
is gúanín (substance obtained from guano) · es guanina (substance obtained from guano) · cmn 鳥嘌呤 /鸟嘌呤 (substance obtained from guano) · ky гуанин (substance obtained from guano) · fr guanine (substance obtained from guano) · tr guanin (substance obtained from guano) · hu guanin (substance obtained from guano) · fi guaniini (substance obtained from guano) · kk гуанин (substance obtained from guano) · ru гуани́н (substance obtained from guano) · ca guanina (substance obtained from guano) · eo guanino (substance obtained from guano) · de Guanin (substance obtained from guano) · pl guanina (substance obtained from guano) · ja グアニン (substance obtained from guano) · cs guanin (substance obtained from guano) · it guanina (substance obtained from guano)