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chitinase

noun

chitinase is a noun meaning “Any enzyme that hydrolyzes chitin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-I-T-I-N-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chitinase is chitinases.

What does chitinase mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any enzyme that hydrolyzes chitin.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of chitinase

  • chitinases plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is chitinase?

Chitinase appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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 chitinase come from?

From chitin + -ase.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).