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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.
lysozyme is a noun meaning "an enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria". It carries one recorded sense.
an enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria
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 lysozyme come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.