porphyrin
Meaning of porphyrin
noun
Any of a class of heterocyclic compounds containing pyrrole rings arranged in a square or other similar shape; they are important in biochemistry in a form with a metal atom in the central cavity (hemoglobin with iron, chlorophyll with magnesium, etc.).
Information about porphyrin
- It is a name.
- The plural form of porphyrin is: porphyrins.
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Hyphenation of porphyrin
por-phyrin
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- porphyrin is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with porphyrin
anagyrin, benzoporphyrin, bromoporphyrin, coproporphyrin, corphyrin, cytoporphyrin, deoxophylloerythroetioporphyrin, deuteroporphyrin, dibromoporphyrin, dihematoporphyrin, dihydroporphyrin, dimethylprotoporphyrin, divinylporphyrin, etioporphyrin, ferriporphyrin, ferriprotoporphyrin, ferroprotoporphyrin, hematoporphyrin, heptacarboxylporphyrin, hexacarboxylporphyrin, hexahydroporphyrin, iodothyrin, lepidoporphyrin, merphyrin, mesoetioporphyrin, mesoporphyrin, metalloporphyrin, octaethylporphyrin, ooporphyrin, oxyhematoporphyrin, parathyrin, pentacarboxylporphyrin, pentaporphyrin, phylloporphyrin, protoporphyrin, pseudouroporphyrin, pyrroporphyrin, subporphyrin, tetraarylporphyrin, tetraethylporphyrin, tetrahydroporphyrin, tetrakisphenylporphyrin, tetramethylporphyrin, tetraphenylporphyrin, texaphyrin, trimethylporphyrin, triphenylsubporphyrin, urohematoporphyrin, uroporphyrin, vinylporphyrin