biguanide
noun
biguanide is a noun meaning “The compound imidodicarbonimidic diamide derived from guanidine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-I-G-U-A-N-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of biguanide is biguanides.
What does biguanide mean?
noun
- 1
The compound imidodicarbonimidic diamide derived from guanidine
- 2
Any of a class of antihyperglycemic and antimalarial drugs based upon this compound.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of biguanide
- biguanides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is biguanide?
Biguanide appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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).
Where does biguanide come from?
From bi- + guanide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).