citosina
Galician
Noun
citosina f (uncountable)
- (biochemistry) cytosine
Italian
Etymology
By surface analysis, cito- + -ina.
Noun
citosina f (plural citosine)
- (biochemistry) cytosine
Anagrams
- Castioni, canoisti, coniasti, istonica
Portuguese
Noun
citosina f (uncountable)
- (biochemistry) cytosine (a base which appears in DNA)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Cytosin, equivalent to cito- + -osa + -ina.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θitoˈsina/ [θi.t̪oˈsi.na]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /sitoˈsina/ [si.t̪oˈsi.na]
- Rhymes: -ina
- Syllabification: ci‧to‧si‧na
Noun
citosina f (plural citosinas)
- (organic chemistry) cytosine
- Hypernym: pirimidina
- Coordinate terms: timina, uracilo
Further reading
- “citosina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014