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say it: tuh-LOH-mur-ayz
telomerase is a noun meaning "an enzyme in eukaryotic cells that can add telomeres to the ends of chromosomes after they divide". It is pronounced /təˈloʊmɚˌeɪz/ — tuh-LOH-mur-ayz. It carries one recorded sense.
an enzyme in eukaryotic cells that can add telomeres to the ends of chromosomes after they divide
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 telomerase come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.