arginase
noun
arginase is a noun meaning “An enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of arginine to form urea and ornithine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-R-G-I-N-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of arginase is arginases.
What does arginase mean?
noun
- 1
An enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of arginine to form urea and ornithine
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of arginase
- arginases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is arginase?
Arginase appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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).
Arginase in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of arginine:
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 arginase come from?
From arginine + -ase.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).