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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
alkapton is a noun meaning "an acid formed as an intermediate product of the metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine". It carries one recorded sense.
an acid formed as an intermediate product of the metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for alkapton come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.