glycogen

1. 1.

   one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body

   Synonymsanimal starch

   Broaderpolysaccharide

Other forms of glycogen

plural

glycogens·

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 glycogen

What does glycogen mean?

glycogen means "one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body".

How many syllables are in glycogen?

glycogen has 3 syllables: gly-co-gen. The stress falls on "gly". In IPA it is /ˈɡlaɪkədʒɪn/.

What is another word for glycogen?

Close synonyms include animal starch. 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 glycogen a common word?

glycogen 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.