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Flavin

Fla′vin

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Noun.
[L.
flavus
yellow.]
(Chem.)
A yellow, vegetable dyestuff, resembling quercitron.

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Flavin

Flavin

See also: flavin

English

Proper noun

Flavin

  1. A surname of southern Irish descent, from the Gaelic Ó Flaithimhín.

flavin

flavin

See also: Flavin

English

Noun

flavin (plural flavins)

  1. (biochemistry) Any of a class of tricyclic heterocyclic compounds derived from riboflavin; found especially as the adenine dinucleotide (FAD)

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