Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as invertin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) Invertin.

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  • noun obsolete, biochemistry invertin

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Examples

  • It may very likely produce the same change in the membrane that is caused by the entrance of the spermatozoon under normal circumstances -- membrane formation may be necessarily coincident with the liberation in the egg of some zymose which arises from a pre-existent zymogen.

    Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893

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