pyrimidine

English

Etymology

First attested in 1885. From German Pyrimidin, from German Pyridin (“pyridine”), with the insertion of -mi- from amidine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paɪˈɹɪ.mɪˌdiːn/, /pɪˈɹɪ.mɪˌdiːn/

Noun

Structural formula of pyrimidine.

pyrimidine (plural pyrimidines)

1. (organic chemistry) A diazine in which the two nitrogen atoms are in the meta- positions; it is the basis of three of the bases found in DNA and RNA: thymine, uracil and cytosine

Hypernyms

• diazine

Derived terms

• alkylpyrimidine
• aminopyrimidine
• anilinopyrimidine
• azidopyrimidine
• azolopyrimidine
• diaminopyrimidine
• dihydropyrimidine
• fluoropyrimidine
• furopyrimidine
• homopyrimidine
• oligopyrimidine
• pentapyrimidine
• polypyrimidine
• pyrazolopyrimidine
• pyridopyrimidine
• pyrimidinedione
• pyrimidinergic
• pyrimidinyl
• tetrazolopyrimidine
• thiopyrimidine

Translations

diazine in which the two nitrogen atoms are in the meta-positions

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 嘧啶 (mat⁶ ding⁶)

  Mandarin: 嘧啶 (zh) (mìdìng)

• Finnish: pyrimidiini (fi)
• French: pyrimidine (fr) f
• Galician: pirimidina (gl) f
• Italian: pirimidina (it) f
• Japanese: ピリミジン (pirimijin)
• Kazakh: пиримидин (pirimidin)
• Korean: 피리미딘 (pirimidin)
• Spanish: pirimidina f

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

pyrimidine f (plural pyrimidines)

1. pyrimidine

Further reading

• “pyrimidine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.