tryptophane

Questions about tryptophane

What is another word for tryptophane?

It depends which tryptophane you mean. In the sense “an amino acid that occurs in proteins; is essential for growth and normal metabolism; a precursor of niacin”, the synonyms are tryptophan. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of tryptophane?

WordNet records no antonym for tryptophane. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for tryptophane come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of tryptophane

• Full entry for tryptophaneAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for tryptophaneWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.