gibberellin
noun
gibberellin is a noun meaning “Any of a class of diterpene plant growth hormones first isolated from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-I-B-B-E-R-E-L-L-I-N, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gibberellin is gibberellins.
What does gibberellin mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a class of diterpene plant growth hormones first isolated from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of gibberellin
- gibberellins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gibberellin?
Gibberellin appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd 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 gibberellin come from?
From taxonomic name Gibberella + English -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).