proteins
- 1Plural of protein.
A balanced diet should include proteins from several different sources.
Researchers compared the proteins found in various plant species.
Note
A plural that only the countable meanings can take. In biochemistry each protein is a single molecule, made of one or more long chains of amino acids held together by peptide bonds, so researchers speak of many different proteins. In nutrition, protein is usually a mass noun: a meal is high in protein, not in proteins. The plural returns there for protein-rich foods, such as meats and their substitutes.
proteins is a form of protein
protein, noun: One of the three major classes of food energy, supplying about 4 calories per gram and abundant in meat and some vegetables such as legumes. Full entry
- Forms
- proteinproteins plural
- Spelling
- protein → proteins: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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