peptone
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of peptone
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- Any water-soluble mixture of polypeptides and amino acids formed by the partial hydrolysis of protein.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *pékʷ-ye- Proto-Hellenic *péťťō Ancient Greek πέσσω (péssō)bf. Ancient Greek πέπτω (péptō) Ancient Greek πεπτόν (peptón)der. German Peptonbor. English peptone From German Pepton, from Ancient Greek πεπτόν (peptón, “cooked, digested”) derived from πέπτω (péptō, “soften, ripen, boil, cook, bake, digest”).
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