anhydrase
noun
anhydrase is a noun meaning “An enzyme that catalyzes the removal of water from a material” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-H-Y-D-R-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of anhydrase is anhydrases.
What does anhydrase mean?
noun
- 1
An enzyme that catalyzes the removal of water from a material.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anhydrase
- anhydrases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anhydrase?
Anhydrase appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Anhydrase in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense enzyme:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does anhydrase come from?
From an- + hydrase.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).