uracil

See also: Uracil

English

Etymology

From uro- +‎ ac(etic) +‎ -ile. Coined in 1885 by the German chemist Robert Behrend, who was attempting to synthesize derivatives of uric acid.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈjʊərəsɪl/

Noun

uracil (countable and uncountable, plural uracils)

(organic chemistry) One of the bases of RNA, pairing with adenine.
Synonym: (symbol) U

Coordinate terms: adenine, cytosine, guanine
- 2013, W. C. Corning, Stanley C. Ratner, Chemistry of Learning: Invertebrate Research, page 191:
  We did have some success with uracil when we would preincorporate the uracil into a mutant of E. coli that had a uracil requirement and then feed this cellular content from E. coli.

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Translations

one of the bases of RNA

Catalan: uracil m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 尿嘧啶 (zh) (niàomìdìng)
Czech: uracil m
Esperanto: uracilo
Finnish: urasiili (fi)
French: uracile (fr) m
Galician: uracilo m
German: Uracil (de) n
Hungarian: uracil (hu)
Italian: uracile (it) f
Japanese: ウラシル (ja) (urashiru)
Portuguese: uracil m, uracilo m (Portugal), uracila f (Brazil)
Russian: ураци́л (ru) m (uracíl)
Spanish: uracilo m

Anagrams

Ulrica, Uralic, curial, lauric

Czech

Noun

uracil m inan

uracil

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.ɾaˈsiw/ [u.ɾaˈsiʊ̯]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /u.ɾɐˈsil/ [u.ɾɐˈsiɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /u.ɾɐˈsi.li/

Noun

uracil m (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) uracil (one of the bases of RNA)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French uracile.

Noun

uracil n (uncountable)

uracil

Declension

declension of uracil (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) uracil	uracilul
genitive/dative	(unui) uracil	uracilului
vocative	uracilule

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