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Peptide

Peptide

See also: peptide

German

Noun

Peptide n

plural of Peptid

peptide

peptide

See also: Peptide

English

Noun

peptide ‎(plural peptides)

(biochemistry) A class of organic compounds consisting of various numbers of amino acids in which the amine of one is reacted with the carboxylic acid of the next to form an amide bond.
(biochemistry) The peptide bond itself.

Hyponyms

See also Wikisaurus:peptide

Translations

class of organic compounds

Armenian: պեպտիդ ‎(peptid)
Catalan: pèptid m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 肽 ‎(taai³)

Mandarin: 肽 (zh) ‎(tài)
Czech: peptid m
Esperanto: peptido
Finnish: peptidi (fi)
French: peptide (fr) m
German: Peptid (de) n
Greek: πεπτίδιο n ‎(peptídio)

Ido: peptido (io)
Italian: peptide (it)
Japanese: ペプチド ‎(pepuchido)
Polish: peptyd (pl) m
Portuguese: peptídeo m, peptídio m, péptido m, peptido m
Romanian: peptidă (ro) f
Russian: пепти́д (ru) m ‎(peptíd)
Spanish: péptido (es) m
Swedish: peptid (sv) c
Turkish: peptit

Derived terms

Derived terms

French

Etymology

From English peptide.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɛp.tid/
Homophone: peptides

Noun

peptide m ‎(plural peptides)

(biochemistry) peptide

Italian

Noun

peptide m ‎(plural peptidi)

(biochemistry) peptide

Derived terms

peptidico