cytokinin
noun
cytokinin is a noun meaning “Any of a class of plant hormones involved in cell growth and division” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-T-O-K-I-N-I-N, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cytokinin is cytokinins.
What does cytokinin mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a class of plant hormones involved in cell growth and division.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cytokinin
- cytokinins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cytokinin?
Cytokinin appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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 cytokinin come from?
From cytokine + -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).