farnesyl
noun
farnesyl is a noun meaning “The univalent radical derived from farnesol” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-N-E-S-Y-L, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of farnesyl is farnesyls.
What does farnesyl mean?
noun
- 1
The univalent radical derived from farnesol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of farnesyl
- farnesyls plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is farnesyl?
Farnesyl 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 farnesyl come from?
From farnesol + -yl. Thus ultimately from Farnese via Vachellia farnesiana (sweet acacia tree) and its namesake Odoardo Cardinal Farnese.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).