endosome
noun
endosome is a noun meaning “An endocytic vacuole through which molecules internalized during endocytosis pass en route to lysosomes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-N-D-O-S-O-M-E, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of endosome is endosomes.
What does endosome mean?
noun
- 1
An endocytic vacuole through which molecules internalized during endocytosis pass en route to lysosomes
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of endosome
- endosomes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is endosome?
Endosome appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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).
Endosome in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense endocytic vacuole:
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 endosome come from?
From endo- + -some.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).