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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
pepsin is a noun meaning "an enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones". It carries one recorded sense.
an enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones
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 pepsin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.