CONCANAVALIN


Meaning of CONCANAVALIN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌkän-kə-ˈna-və-lən ]

noun

Etymology: com- + canavalin, a noncrystalline globulin found in the jack bean, from New Latin Canavalia, genus name of the jack bean

Date: 1917

: a protein that occurs in the jack bean and is a mitogen and hemagglutinin

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