lectin

6 letters · noun · scores 1,400 in SpellHuntr

noun

any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies but are not antibodies in that they are not evoked by an antigenic stimulus

Lectin in a sentence

The result proved less about the safety of genetic engineering than it did about the safety of lectins – known animal poisons.

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