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guanosine
(guano|sine)
Pronunciation:
/ˈgwɑːnəsiːn/
noun
[
mass noun
]
Biochemistry
a compound consisting of guanine combined with ribose, present in all living tissue in combined form as nucleotides.
Origin:
early 20th century
: from
guanine
, with the insertion of
-ose
2
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