aquaporin
noun
aquaporin is a noun meaning “Any of a class of proteins that form water-permeable pores in the membrane of biological cells” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-Q-U-A-P-O-R-I-N, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of aquaporin is aquaporins.
What does aquaporin mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a class of proteins that form water-permeable pores in the membrane of biological cells.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of aquaporin
- aquaporins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is aquaporin?
Aquaporin appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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).
Aquaporin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense class of proteins:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | aquaporine |
| Portuguese | aquaporina |
| Spanish | acuaporina |
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 aquaporin come from?
From aqua- + porin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).