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Where does “peptidoglycan” come from?

Peptidoglycan is a 20th-century English compound of peptide and glycan, combining Greek péptós meaning digested with glycan, a polymer of sugars.

peptidoglycan (English): A polymer of glycan and peptides found in...

Definitions

  1. A polymer of glycan and peptides found in...

Ancestry of “peptidoglycan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishpeptido-—
2English‐o‐—
3Latin‐o‐—
4Ancient Greek-ό-—

Words derived from “peptidoglycan”

  • pseudopeptidoglycan
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