plastin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by some considered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus.

Word forms

plastin plastins

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλαστός (plastós, “mouldable”) + -in.

Related words

chloroplastin cytoplastin plastinoid

Derived words

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.