adenylic acid

1. 1.

   a nucleotide found in muscle cells and important in metabolism; reversibly convertible to ADP and ATP

   Synonymsadenosine monophosphateAMP

   Broadernucleotide

Questions about adenylic acid

What does adenylic acid mean?

adenylic acid means "a nucleotide found in muscle cells and important in metabolism; reversibly convertible to ADP and ATP".

What is another word for adenylic acid?

Close synonyms include adenosine monophosphate, AMP. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adenylic acid a common word?

adenylic acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.