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Adar

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Shevat and before Nisan. Judaism
Noun
  1. 1
    The enzyme adenosine deaminase that affects RNA, important in editing nuclear double stranded RNAs (from A to I) in higher eukaryotes, that work by acting to convert adenosines to insosines via hydrolytic deamination. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the ecclesiastic year in the Jewish calendar (in February and March) wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Hebrew אֲדָר (adár). Doublet of Addaru.

Etymology 2

Derived from the initial letters of adenosine deaminase acting on RNA.

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