opsin

1. 1.

   retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin

   Broaderprotein

Other forms of opsin

plural

opsins·

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 opsin

What does opsin mean?

opsin means "retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin".

How many syllables are in opsin?

opsin has 2 syllables: op-sin. The stress falls on "op".

Is opsin a common word?

opsin 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.