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esculentin

noun

Etymology

From esculent + -in.

  1. derived from *h₁ed-✻ — “to eat”
  2. learned borrowing from ēsculentus — “fit for eating, eatable, edible; good to eat, delicious; nourishing; full of food”
  3. suffixed as esculentin — “esculent + in”

Definitions

  1. A particular steroid glycoside.

    • Secondly, AMPs having one disulfide bond which pack into a loop structure having a tail e.g., bactenecins and esculentins.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for esculentin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA