guanine

English

Etymology

guano +‎ -ine

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɑː.niːn/

Noun

guanine (plural guanines)

(chemistry) A substance first obtained from guano; it is a nucleic base and pairs with cytosine in DNA and RNA.

Translations

substance obtained from guano

Chinese:
Mandarin: 鳥嘌呤 (zh), 鸟嘌呤 (zh) (niǎopiàolìng, niǎopiāolìng)
Czech: guanin m
Esperanto: guanino
Finnish: guaniini (fi)
French: guanine (fr) f
German: Guanin (de) n
Hungarian: guanin

Icelandic: gúanín n
Italian: guanina (it) f
Japanese: グアニン (ja) (guanin)
Polish: guanina (pl) f
Russian: гуани́н (ru) m (guanín)
Spanish: guanina f
Turkish: guanin (tr)

Further reading

“Guanine” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
guanine mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016

Anagrams

Guinean, anguine

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