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Any of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds, composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings, that constitute one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines) and are components of nucleic acids.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
Examples
- 1982, Ray A. Field, Mechanically Deboned Red Meat, C. O. Chichester, George Franklin Stewart, Advances in Food Research, Volume 27, page 67, Clifford et al. (1976) investigated the metabolism of individual purines and found that adenine, and to a lesser extent hypoxanthine, had pronounced effects on blood uric acid levels. The purine content of foods, in particular adenine, would therefore be of immense nutritional significance.
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a colorless crystalline organic base containing nitrogen; the parent compound of various biologically important substances
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: base, alkali
any of several bases that are derivatives of purine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: base, alkali
Narrower terms: adenine, A, guanine, G
Borrowed from German Purin.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
purina
— organic heterocyclic base
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Chinese Cantonese:
嘌呤
(piu3 ling4)
— organic heterocyclic base
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Chinese Mandarin:
嘌呤
(piàolìng, piāolíng)
— organic heterocyclic base
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Finnish:
puriini
— organic heterocyclic base
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French:
purine
— organic heterocyclic base
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Galician:
purina
— organic heterocyclic base
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German:
Purin
— organic heterocyclic base
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Indonesian:
purina
— organic heterocyclic base
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Italian:
purina
— organic heterocyclic base
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Japanese:
プリン
(purin)
— organic heterocyclic base
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Kazakh:
пурин
(purin)
— organic heterocyclic base
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Korean:
퓨린
(pyurin)
— organic heterocyclic base
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Malay:
purina
— organic heterocyclic base
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Polish:
puryna
— organic heterocyclic base
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Portuguese:
purina
— organic heterocyclic base
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Spanish:
purina
— organic heterocyclic base
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Turkish:
pürin
— organic heterocyclic base
