Where does “triphosphonucleoside” come from?

triphosphonucleoside (English) comes from English tri, from Proto-Indo-European tréyes — three.

triphosphonucleoside (English): A nucleoside triphosphate

Definitions

  1. A nucleoside triphosphate

Ancestry of “triphosphonucleoside”, step by step

triphosphonucleoside traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English tri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishtritriathlon; triangle
2Proto-Indo-Europeantréyesthree

via English phosphonucleoside

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishphosphonucleosideA nucleoside phosphate
2Englishnucleosidean organic molecule in which a nitrogenous...
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