amino
adjective/əˈminoʊ/
Frequency rank: #5,864 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
relating to a chemical group (NH2) found in compounds that form proteins
Example sentence
Proteins are built from amino acids linked together in long chains.
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