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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.
nuclease is a noun meaning "general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units". It carries one recorded sense.
general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units
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 nuclease come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.