Spermine

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A polyamine, N,N'-bis(3-aminopropyl) butane-1,4-diamine, originally extracted from sperm, that is involved in cellular metabolism. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From sperm + -ine.

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