Defenition of the word thymine

• Defenition of the word thymine

  • One of the four bases in the nucleic acid of DNA. The others are adenine, guanine, and cytosine. Thymine always pairs with adenine.
  • a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine

Hypernyms for the word thymine

• • alkali
  • base
  • pyrimidine

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