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reptilase

noun

Etymology

From reptile + -ase.

  1. derived from *rep-✻
  2. derived from rēpō
  3. derived from rēptile
  4. derived from reptile
  5. inherited from reptil
  6. suffixed as reptilase — “reptile + ase”

Definitions

  1. An enzyme found in the venom of Bothrops snakes, with activity similar to thrombin.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reptilase. 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