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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024lec•tin (lek′tin),USA pronunciation n. [Biochem.]- Biochemistryany of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- Latin lēct(us), past participle of legere to gather, select, read + -in2
- 1954
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