English Explanatory Dictionary

Rubisco

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An enzyme (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase) which catalyzes both the fixing of atmospheric carbon dioxide during photosynthesis (and for a few chemioautotrophic bacteria) and the reverse process of photorespiration.
noun
  1. Alternative form of Rubisco.
noun
  1. Alternative form of Rubisco.

Pronunciation

/ruːˈbiskoʊ/

Word forms

Rubisco

Etymology

From RuBisCO

Derived words

rubiscolin
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on R Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary