deoxyribonucleotide

[ dee-ok-si-rahy-boh-noo-klee-uh-tahyd, -nyoo- ]

nounBiochemistry.
  1. an ester of a deoxyribonucleoside and phosphoric acid; a constituent of DNA.

Origin of deoxyribonucleotide

1
First recorded in 1945–50; deoxyribo(nucleic acid) + nucleotide

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