colágeno
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: co‧lá‧ge‧no
Noun edit
colágeno m (plural colágenos)
- (biochemistry) collagen (glycoprotein that forms elongated fibres)
- Synonym: colagénio
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French collagène, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) and -geno.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
colágeno (feminine colágena, masculine plural colágenos, feminine plural colágenas)
Noun edit
colágeno m (plural colágenos)
Further reading edit
- “colágeno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014