cytidine
/ˈsaɪtɪdiːn/noun
cytidine is a noun meaning “A nucleoside consisting of cytosine linked to ribose, occurring in human RNA” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-T-I-D-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cytidine is cytidines.
What does cytidine mean?
noun
- 1
A nucleoside consisting of cytosine linked to ribose, occurring in human RNA
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cytidine?
- /ˈsaɪtɪdiːn/
- /ˈsaɪtɪdɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-cytidine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cytidine
- cytidines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cytidine?
Cytidine appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th 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 cytidine come from?
From cyt(osine) + -idine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).