Loading page
say it: bahy-oh-KEM-uh-stree
biochemistry is a noun meaning "the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry". It carries one recorded sense.
the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry
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 biochemistry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.