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Ball-and-stick model of a thymine molecule. Key: black = carbon, blue = nitrogen, red = oxygen, white = hydrogen.

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From thymus +‎ -ine. Thymine was first isolated in 1893 by Albrecht Kossel and Albert Neumann from calves' thymus glands, hence its name.

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thymine (countable and uncountable, plural thymines)

  1. (organic chemistry, genetics) A heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione; it pairs with adenine in DNA.
    Coordinate terms: adenine, cytosine, guanine
    • 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 164:
      Then he found them, the substances that made up the four-letter alphabet in whose language all life is written — adenine and cytosine, guanine and thymine.

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thymine f (plural thymines)

  1. thymine

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