dopa

1. 1.

   amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain

   Synonymsdihydroxyphenylalanine

   Broaderamino acid

   NarrowerL-dopa

Other forms of dopa

plural

dopas·

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.

Questions about dopa

What does dopa mean?

dopa means "amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain".

How many syllables are in dopa?

dopa has 2 syllables: do-pa. The stress falls on "do". In IPA it is /ˈdoʊpə/.

What is another word for dopa?

Close synonyms include dihydroxyphenylalanine. 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 dopa a common word?

dopa 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.